Textbooks Quotations

Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials.

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will also push you to do precisely the things that scare you.

If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math.

Textbooks often reflect one perspective. There's a lot more history than what the textbooks tell us. (Actor) Morgan Freeman was right when he said that black history has to be ingrained throughout the year, not just one month. We're starting to do that a little bit. Change is starting to come.

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

Our goal is to have some large general education courses next fall where the textbooks are digital.

I think Mr. Bah can give students an understanding of Sierra Leone they would not have gotten from textbooks or teachers.

I think in the past we've had some concerns with not paying for our bills, but we've been doing a lot better with that these last two years, we've actually been able to get textbooks on island and in the schools before the opening of the school year.

Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

What we know about Pluto could be printed on the back of a postage stamp. The textbooks will be rewritten when this mission is completed. The true nature of this mission is to find the answers to questions we don't even know how to ask.

What we know about Pluto today could fit on the back of a postage stamp. The textbooks will be rewritten after this mission is completed.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

We're totally opposed to inserting sexual orientation into textbooks in our schools. This is more than just accepting it, it's forcing our kids to embrace it, almost celebrate it.

We used to buy the textbooks back from them, but we didn't sell our inventory last year.

We used to buy the textbooks back from them, but we didnt sell our inventory last year,

Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

We're realizing just how much there is to the deep, outer solar system. I think it's exciting that textbooks have to be rewritten, over and over.

These monuments are playing a role of textbooks that helps Japanese people learn about the wartime history and Japanese aggressors' atrocities over the Chinese people,

This spacecraft is going to rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.

If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration.

Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.

At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.

Although history textbooks contain facts and information and historical fiction provides entertainment, well-told biographies bridge the gap for children by combining historical accuracy along with engaging stories. It is time to bridge that gap for the middle grade student.

A lot of what they get in the textbooks is hard to apply in the real world. That's where the software comes into play.

Teacher tenure is a myth, ... California teachers only have basic due process rights so they aren't fired for arbitrary reasons like speaking out on behalf of textbooks for their students. Proposition 74 just adds millions in costs to the current evaluation system and does absolutely nothing to improve education or help students.

People pay so much money to the school board. Taxpayers pay for textbooks in every which way.

I fully expect that textbooks in the future will have a lot of information about the formation of the solar system from these samples that landed this morning in Utah.

If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't care if you're writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you're writing and it's paying the bills, consider yourself a successful writer.

Students just don't understand those times. There's virtually nothing in textbooks and so there's been a rupture with the past that the authorities are happy to maintain.

Students who can't afford textbooks now are forced to make some tough decisions, such as picking and choosing which books are more important, or just not purchasing books for a semester. It seems relatively simple, but it makes a huge difference, especially to those students who struggle to afford their textbooks each semester.

The book arms kids with facts that are too often missing in today's textbooks and classrooms.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.

It will rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

In September 1991, I joined my dad, Dr. Cecil Todd, for a meeting with the Ministry of Education in charge of all of the public schools of Russia. In this meeting we were granted the approval, endorsement and encouragement to distribute Bibles as textbooks in the public schools of Russia.

Because textbooks are the backbone of classroom instruction, we must demand improvement so that our students can acquire the knowledge and skills they will need for more advanced learning.

Because the textbook publishers are not going to lower their prices, we must combat the outrageous prices of textbooks at the local level.

I read newspapers, textbooks on crime. I talk to private investigators, police officers, jail administrators, doctors, lawyers, career criminals.

These textbooks will be created in Africa so they will represent the unique experiences of African students.

I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player.

The hero with a great heart will become more real to Chinese of all ages when he leaps from the pages of textbooks and onto the silver screen in the serial.

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

It provides for us a window 41/2 billion years back in time to observe the formation conditions of giant planets. This is a little bit about rewriting the textbooks about the outer planets.

I traded in textbooks for novels in three of my advanced public relations classes. Even though the stories are fiction, the characters and plot can reinforce theories, ethics and the realities of working in a career such as public relations.

Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship.

I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything.

I am very proud of this resolution, and I hope that the New Brunswick Faculty Council adopts this policy because it's one step further in lessening the incredible burden that textbooks are on college students.

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

Being a Black American man, I don't think (public schools) taught me enough about my culture. Even today the textbooks are lacking.

The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me.

There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.

All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron.

If you read a textbook it will tell you, these are the things, for instance, on the African continent that would contribute to immune deficiency: the various tropical diseases, which because of poor health infrastructure, poor nutrition, general levels of poverty, don't get treated; syphilis, untreated or not properly treated (which as I hear is a big problem, when it is treated and the symptoms disappear, but, in fact, it is not cured and incubates there) that will impact on the immune system. So you have got to deal with these things.

I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan. I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them. There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful information. "Augustus commissioned it." "Yes," Zia said. "Fascinating," I murmured. "Would you two like to be left alone with a history textbook?

My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.