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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda. -- Jerry Falwell
I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology. -- L. Ron Hubbard
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you. -- Stan Getz
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
In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day. -- Ayelet Waldman
Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook -- Richie Sambora
Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education. -- Jimmy Wales
I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook. -- Laura Anne Gilman
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man. -- Henry Ford
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
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery. -- Keith Richards
There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks. -- Anchee Min
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. -- Herman Melville
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
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology. Only if symbols are construed to mean what they are not intended to mean can there arise imaginary, insoluble conflicts. ... the blunder leads to blasphemy: the Creator is accused of systematic deceitfulness. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing. -- Malcolm X
If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers. -- Howard Zinn
Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important. -- James W. Loewen
Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline. -- James W. Loewen
Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.' -- Ben Bernanke
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
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
Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that. -- James W. Loewen
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey. -- John Hope
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause. -- Samantha Power
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. -- A. R. Ammons
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end. -- Len Wein
The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis. -- John Podhoretz
While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray. -- Elliott Abrams
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students. -- Jonathan Kozol
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. -- Bill Gates
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. -- James Surowiecki
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. -- Alice Hamilton
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. -- Francis Crick
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks. -- Craig Brown
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis. -- Ken Ham
I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping. -- Pauline Hanson
If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose. -- Lee Strobel
If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't care if you're writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you're writing and it's paying the bills, consider yourself a successful writer. -- Julie Klausner
I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence. -- Muhammad Yunus
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Each others' lives are our best textbooks. -- Gloria Steinem
There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks. -- James W. Loewen
Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. -- Scott Westerfeld
Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks. -- Paul Vitz
Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state. -- Adolf Hitler
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks. -- Joshua Lederberg
While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins. -- Robert Rauschenberg
The religious foundations of America have been completely expurgated from our history textbooks. -- D. James Kennedy
School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage. -- Paul Vitz
The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them. -- Sam Wineburg
Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks. -- Paul Samuelson
My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag. -- Tie Domi
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them. -- James W. Loewen
The knowledge we gain from textbooks can never measure to the wisdom we gain through experience. -- Anika de Souza
The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read. -- James W. Loewen
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time. -- Albert Bandura
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government? -- Voltaire
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks. -- Joan Robinson
I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks -- Paul Samuelson
I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks. -- Joan Walsh Anglund
Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship. -- James G. Watt
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them. -- Osman Rashid
Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship. -- Ronald Coase
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
One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten. -- Thomas Sowell
A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak. -- Scott Westerfeld
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 at them. -- James W. Loewen
It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings. -- David Barton
It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks? -- Lewis Black
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
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get. -- Robert Huber
My dad taught me everything I know about being a man, and most of what I know about being a woman. The rest I had to learn from textbooks. -- Jarod Kintz
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
School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view,... -- Alan Kay
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. -- Thomas A. Edison
There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred. -- Eugenie Scott
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks. -- Max Born
Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you? -- Brad Stine
Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the traditionals, and it's not even mentioned in our Western medical textbooks. -- Deepak Chopra
The Pseudo-liberals monopolize the teaching jobs at many universities. Only men who agree with them are appointed as teachers and instructors of the social sciences, and only textbooks supporting their ideas are used. -- Ludwig von Mises
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
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students. -- James W. Loewen

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