Textbooks Quotes

• We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

  John Hope Franklin

  Travel, Journey, African American

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• Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

  Jerry Falwell

  Soviet Propaganda, Propaganda, Soviet

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• I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Scientology

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• Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.

  Neil Postman

  Teacher, Mind, Enemy

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.116, Vintage

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• Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.

  Yukio Mishima

  Notebook, Teacher, Wall

  "Acts of Worship: Seven Stories (Cigarette)". Book by Yukio Mishima, November 1, 2002.

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• Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Wisdom, Flames, Human Experience

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• There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers, and legislators address topics such as the wage gap, gender and education, or women's health, they turn to these experts for enlightenment. For the most part, they peddle misinformation, victim politics, and sophistry. They claim that their teachings represent the academic consensus, but that is only because they have excluded all dissenters.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Fashion, Teaching, Writing

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  School, Government, Political

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• Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.

  James W. Loewen

  Important, Claims, Being True

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

  James W. Loewen

  Thinking, Done, Students

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

  Joey Ramone

  Real, School, Rocks

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• I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

  Johann Lamont

  Children, Passion, School

  "Johann Lamont: Facing up to Scotland's 'stark choice'". Interview With Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2012.

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• Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

  Noah Webster

  Bible, God, Education

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• The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

  Jeff Cohen

  Technology, Demand, Gains

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• Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

  Robert Ballard

  Motivation, Book, Inspiration

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• If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Thinking, Personality, Entrepreneur

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• I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Needs, Updates

  "Art Spiegelman On The Future of the Book". Interview with Brian Heater, www.publishersweekly.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

  Gloria Steinem

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• For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.

  Bill Henson

  Reading, Glasses, World

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

  Hope Davis

  Country, Cities, United States

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another's pain, sharing one another's blessings — reasonably, honestly, fairly, without respect to race, or sex, or geography, or political affiliation.

  Mario

  Sex, Pain, Believe

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• Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.

  James W. Loewen

  Drama, Real, Storyline

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from specific information provided in classroom lectures or assigned textbooks, but from the values obtained in active engagement in meaningful issues. We achieve for ourselves only as we appreciate the problems and concerns of others-and only as we see our own lives as part of a much greater social purpose.

  Manning Marable

  Meaningful, Educational, Men

  Manning Marable (1997). “Black liberation in conservative America”, South End Pr

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• The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

  Eoin Colfer

  Answers, Care, Problem

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2”, Miramax

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• I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

  Adam Hamilton

  Week, Pastor, Teach

  "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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