Book Quote by Emil Artin

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but…

— Neil Postman

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do…

— Samuel Johnson

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books -…

— Salman Rushdie

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

— Samuel Johnson

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

— Jesse Ball

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and…

— Chris Bohjalian

“If students merely recite academic concepts from books and their instructors' verbal lectures, it will not help them to clearly understand course material contents…

— Saaif Alam