The best way to learn is to go glow and get an instructor at your local flying club. Going electric first has the advantage of giving you a more durable plane....mainly due to thier lightness, most electrics dont even weigh a pound and most of them are foam. If you crash one, its not a huge loss.

The telemaster is a nice electric, but it is a wood kit if my memory serves me correctly. But if you get that you might as well go glow.
With glow there is more to know and more to learn...but if you approach it correctly, it'll be very easy to learn. I am in the process of building a SIG LT-40 (glow plane) and it is my first plane. I thought about going electric, but after LOTS of research decided against it. One reason why is because they only fly for about 8-10 minutes on a battery. You can get another battery, which isn't cheap. Glow can fly forever, just land a refuel. So you can fly with an instructor until you get tired, not until the 8 minutes expires. Also, for me the fun of building a kit was attractive. I am college kid, 22 yrs old, and dont have a lot of money....the built in delay of building a kit, allows the fun to start immediately and allows a few paychecks to come it meanwhile. A foam electric or any ARF for that matter, would just sit around until I got more money to buy the other parts.

If you went glow, you wouldn't regret it. I guarantee it. Electric is fine, but its like buying a bicycle to learn to ride a Harley. Just learn to ride the Harley, slowly and at your own pace. read literature on it, and once you learn....you've got a Harley, and not a bicycle!

Hope this helps.