California Quote by Bill Gates

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

— Sarah Churchwell

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

— Osman Rashid

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

— Walter Jon Williams

Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch…

— James W. Loewen

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

— Jimmy Wales

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books,

— Eddy Cue

“Critics may find this hard to believe, but students in American public schools today are studying and mastering far more difficult topics in science…

— Diane Ravitch

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

— James W. Loewen

Why don't we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well,…

— James Harris Simons

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

— Shirley Williams

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

— George Orwell

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get…

— Thomas Huxley