Originally Posted by Pilotpip
Sure. The average time for getting your private pilot cert. seems to be about 70 hours regardless of how you do your training.
I would say that reflects poorly on the instructor if that's an average. I'd ask any prospective instructor or school for proof of their success record, and flight hours of students finishing the curricula would be important to me. The FAA requires 40 hours for the private, if the average is almost double that, I'd want to know why.