The ideal is that one learns from someone else's bad judgement. Not everyone needs to burn their hand on a stove to know it can be hot.
Unfortunately no one is going to land for you. At some stage the instructor has to let you do it yourself.
That, to me as a new Instructor, was the hardest part.
An always ‘interesting’ experience was instructing seaplane on the Lake Amphibian. The engine was a pusher mounted on top of the wing.When you bought the throttle back to idle, unlike a conventional aircraft where the nose drops, the nose would pitch up, instead of down.
Your student in almost every case was already a fixed wing pilot land, who had only flown standard tractor aircraft. When they ease back the throttle to idle his/her muscle memory is going to counteract any nose drop by back stick.
This will have been extensively briefed. It will have been briefed again as the student begins their final approach. “Be aware that the nose will pitch up with a reduction in power!!!!!” They will have been told that they will probably forget this as they are about to touch down.
No prizes for guessing what happens. As they are flaring and pulling off the last bit of power they will ease back on the stick...they have, since they started flying, always done that.
Now the natural pitch up reaction of this aircraft, combined with the muscle memory actions of the student... unless stopped/blocked by the Instructor will result in a ballooning up with low airspeed, nose high attitude, to an altitude where unless something is rapidly done, it all rapidly going to get unpleasant.
But guess what a students instinctive reaction might be... slam in some power to save the incipient stall...then guess what happens on a pusher amphibian with a top mounted engine when you rapidly add power??? The nose pitches down...sharply!!!
There is a moment for all of us, even those with thousands of hours, when just before the touchdown, you have done everything to the best of your ability, it is perfectly balanced, right place, right time, right speed, cross wind catered for, when ones blissfully waits for the perfect touchdown, and something very unexpected happens. It is a vulnerable moment, and very much more so for a pilot, in an unfamiliar plane in an unusual place...ie about to land on water instead of the usual runway.
That John, is where no-one else but the student is going to learn about ‘hot stoves’.