The downside to pet projects is that they invariably teach you something you didn't really want to know.
Sure, some of our schools have elected to offer "computer" classes, but instead of teaching programming, these classes almost invariably teach programs: how to use Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, or any of the other commercial software packages used in the average workplace.
When I discussed the exponential function in the first-semester calculus classes that I taught, I invariably used consumption of a nonrenewable natural resource as an example.
When giving master classes, she said that she invariably had to teach basics like breath support.
We have one particularly challenging year at the moment, with three pupils who are completely dominating the group of 12. Lesson content is invariably compromised when teaching the whole group, in an attempt to minimise bad behaviour.
But invariably, when he spoke from real knowledge, he taught.
When I ask him, as I often do at the end of our arguments, if he is proud to have taught me to think for myself, he invariably shakes his head.
We have taught this module for several terms and invariably found evidence to support that it was an effective learning exercise.
Nonetheless, if this experience has taught me one important lesson, it is that regardless of the pain, regardless of the hopelessness, it is invariably ephemeral it does pass, it does fade, and days of happiness and accomplishment follow.
People, being inherently selfish creatures, would invariably make some excuse as to why they couldn't give us any of their hard-earned money, and objection handling was the way we were taught to deal with these excuses.
