The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook. — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage. — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
“It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks -… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen,… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear:… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
They gave high fives to all the players who say like the most obvious textbook answers in the world. It's like after… — Gilbert Arenas Copy Share Image
If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
“It’s a red letter day, too: the new set of science textbooks has finally arrived. This may not seem much to you… — Frank Chalk Copy Share Image
Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
