The shop at the community college I went to had some heavy 10's. They're good learner machines. Don't see em too much in the real world.
Fortunately... I was already being "privately mentored" on shaper, drillpress, shears, punch-press, horizontal & vertical mills, Hendey tie-bar, all-manual and auto-feed surface grinders, Iron-bearing SB nines, and E A Myers' first-ever Hardinge.. by, if not well before, the date our shop instructor tasked me with the leveling and bolting of our JR HS // HS shop's first brand-new "toolroom" ten SB and the Logan next to it I grew to prefer.
I ended up becoming Dave's
de-facto assistant more than student, as safety needed more than one pair of eyes, what with a bunch of typically rambunctious kids badly outnumbering one lone teacher.
It was a accident of need and circumstance, multiplying HIS effectivness, and one turned into a blessing. The payback? Dave taught me how to manage a team, hold their attention, teach the techniques and the technology, motivate them to apply themselves and excel.
Far the more universally portable skill than mangling metal with my own "single pair" of hands, and one that made military service easier and more beneficial, eventually payed way to Hell and gone better over the long years than cranking handles, "personally".
So no. I consider SB's good more for training carelessness than respect as far as formal-training program lathes go, end of the 1950's, dawn of the 1960's.
What SHOULD we have had, that era?
Horizontal mill. Vertical mill. Collet-runner Hardinge. L&S pocket battleship.
Goods the students might actually RUN, and for a crust, "out in the world". That era anyway.
CNC today of course. make it a serious rig, and common, even so. Same reason. Reality.