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textbook
«We have to have more than textbooks, we need text-people.»
Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
(Educator, Philosopher, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
textbook, textbooks
«The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.»
Author: Albert Bandura
| Keywords:
directness, perishable, perishables, textbook, textbooks, well over
«A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.»
Author: Edith Hamilton
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
a people, historical, literature, no show, reconstruction, Show People, textbook, textbooks, The Writings, Writings
«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.»
Author: John Hope Franklin
| About:
Exploration,
Travel
| Keywords:
depths, explore, explored, explores, glories, go out, journey, Telling the World, Tell the World, textbook, textbooks, the Wilderness, travel, untrodden, wilderness, wildernesses
«It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants»
Author: Josiah Quincy
| About:
History
| Keywords:
by no means, commonplace, contain, countryman, countrymen, descendant, descendants, destinies, doubtless, exerted, exerting, exerts, generations, historical, improbable, interrogatory, Joseph, Joseph I, Joseph Smith, like this, Mormon, Mormons, nineteenth, nineteenth century, prophet, reply, smith, smiths, textbook, textbooks, The Descendants, unborn
«You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
| Keywords:
appeal, implication, implications, jargon, jargon of, meanings, purely, textbook, textbooks, write about, written language
«IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents, and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
blamed, gambler, gamblers, imbibed, imbibes, norm, norms, textbook, textbooks, The Gambler
«It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
arts, college, facts, important person, In Training, liberal, liberal arts, textbook, textbooks, training, train of thought
«A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
disappointment, distasteful, flush, flushed, flushes, resolves, routine, sinking, sinking feeling, tasks, textbook, textbooks
