Textbooks Quotes

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

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.

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.

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

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.

education will be a theme in the next presidential election. It`s one thing that this country is not doing well enough. Several states are going to be adopting new textbooks. This company has spent a lot of money to prepare, so you`re going to go into a period of rising revenues, declining costs and powerful positive profit growth. And it`s selling at 13 times forward fourth quarter earnings.

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.

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.

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

From the publisher`s point of view, there are lots of issues because students buy books and sell them back. Future students might only buy the used textbooks.

I think we should teach a lot about evolution. In fact, I think we should teach more than the evolutionary science teachers want the students to know. The problem is what we`re getting is a philosophy that`s claimed to be scientific fact, a lot of distortion in the textbooks, and all the difficult problems left out, because they don`t want people to ask tough questions.

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.