[Blarg]

Squats do take flexibility, and that's one reason deadlifts can be an easy choice as an alternate killer full-body lift. So, if you don't get detailed and competent squat training, all is not lost.

Also, when it comes to how long it takes to teach compound lifts, at least if you get a good teacher it is fantastic stuff to know and not time wasted. I mean, having a guy take 15 minutes to tell you how to do curls on a nautilus machine and work up a program for it would make me very sad. Yet even weeks(or more) spent learning something great just right is awesome and like some kind of gift from God or whatever.