Hi Francis, all I can say is work through and follow the course and it will make sense. Your teachers ideas are all too common and in his best endeavours to teach you is possibly just passing on what he/she was taught that worked for them.
Again, I have no problem with that approach if it works but you are the prime example of why I built this course – I am being told to do something but it is not working for me.
Enjoy the course.