Here's how to make your flying safer, more efficient and more effective. Because of this, pilots are taught to recover from stalls, in part to show examiners that they know how to do that-at least once.
Pilots show examiners how to do other prescribed maneuvers, as well, to pass check rides.
Unfortunately, there have been some check ride failures along the way. We all know that the meaningful measures of merit is not the number of check rides a pilot has successfully passed or how many licenses he or she has obtained. We also know that the reason for practicing stalls is not to show how you can recover from them-at least, not to my way of thinking. We all know that it isn't difficult to recover from a stall. There are lots of reasons, of course, but they probably derive mostly from improper, hasty or unsafe setup.