In my experience It's more effective for them to fight each other under the proper guidance and instruction, rather than have some elite stick club them until their confidence is gone. Not that you don't learn from that, but its really not the best way IMO.
Yeah. When I first started, Crabby used to duel with me in order to train me. I got my butt kicked hard. I lost all my confidence, but I learned quite a bit about maneuvers and tricks and such.
But training two new guys under guidance is good too. When you and Raynos dragged the squad along with you two to that gunnery practice thing, I fought with some of our squaddies... After that I fought a lot better.
In the end I guess both types of training is good? I don't know that's just me.