One of the most common questions I was asked was whether they should get a young green horse that had almost no handling and was a clean slate and not messed up by poor training.
I believe perhaps the most important task I have in my role as a teacher of horsemanship is to help guide people to evolve out of their 2-D understanding of behaviour and transition into a 3-D world of understanding.
I am convinced that many people (perhaps the majority) continue to believe that the quality of training or the degree of education of a horse is judged by what we can get it to do.