Class today...
Teacher: This is actually very important. How many of you read this part of the textbook?
The teacher looks around. Nobody responds.
Teacher: I made this semester way too easy for you guys. Nobody even read the textbook.
A few disgruntled arguments about having read the textbook some.
Teacher: Don't lie to me. I never even opened a textbook before I taught this class!
Probably a few minutes of students disagreeing with the teacher about that (they do that a lot).
Teacher: You know why textbooks are so expensive don't you? Students aren't going to get anything out of them, so the publishers might as well.
This is sooo true in engineering! Except when you're in graduate school. I read textbooks all the time now. It's a new phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteWe never used text books in grad school. The information was too old by time it got into a textbook. Makes school a lot cheaper that way.
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