Assumption Quote by James W. Loewen

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

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look…

— James W. Loewen

When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged…

— David Sedaris

“A book isn’t rigorous if students aren’t reading it.”

— Penny Kittle

Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.

— Edward Albert

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in…

— Martin Luther

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

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

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

— Akhil Sharma

“The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.”

— Sam Wineburg

“The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over…

— Charles Benoit

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of…

— Alan Kay