Unless the course is about training group communication skills, etc, the fact that it is a good and useful skill has no bearing on its use for instructing other

Unless the course is about training group communication skills, etc, the fact that it is a good and useful skill has no bearing on its use for instructing other topics. The point of a course is to teach you a topic, not teach skills outside of that topic. This was the worst with instructors and professors who felt they needed to teach you some life skill along with calculus. They'd fail to notice a large number of other professors were doing it too. Then you have 5 different people all convinced and trying their hardest to ingrain group communications skills right alongside advanced topics. Meanwhile, I'm crying inside as I struggle with 5 different group projects - not because of the material, I could do each of these projects alone with only moderately more time - but because of the awkwardness of forgetting everyone's name and those details about each of their personal lives they want to talk about for the first 15 minutes of every meeting. Take your life skills and write a self-help book. I just want to learn some integrals.