Quote by Mark David Ledbetter
““Beyond a limited use of good ole vocab and grammar texts to give the students a base, textbooks of any kind just don’t have much value. Their main functions are to give the teacher something teacherly to do in class, organize the course so that a sense of structure can be imparted to the students, and provide content for exams.””
![“Japanese verbs, for example, are agglutinative. The word ikasetakunakatta can fairly easily be divided into the five pieces – go-cause-want-not-past – that determine its meaning (“did not want to let [someone] go”). Only the first piece is clearly part of an actual independent word, but all five…” quote by Mark David Ledbetter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ef/mark-david-ledbetter-34449_quote_japanese-verbs-for-example-are-agglutina_2021975.jpg)
