Posted on 08/06/2009 1:17:29 PM PDT by Abathar
It's not like most of them need to be revised or anything. Secondary school math hasn't changed much in the last few centuries.
TB, I am taking a few graduate courses after more than 35 years since my last college courses. I have two classes coming up in the Fall semester and one book is $110.00 and the other is $98.00. That is books alone! Both courses probably have had no, to minor, corrections during the past several years.
One of the benefits (probably the only one!) of being an English major is that our "textbooks" were quite affordable, given that most were in the public domain.
Professors always listed the most recent edition with spiffy introductions and "study guides," but I always cheaped out and bought used Penguin Classics editions.
Textbooks are published by liberals, edited by liberals and distributed by liberals.
Textbooks are a cash cow for the driveby enemedia and they are granted a monopoly by education establishment liberals.
The publication information on the inside of the books will tell you everything you need to know, who sits on their editing boards, where to look for information on their board of directors, etc...
Liberals like to have their names all over anything, so when you go looking for books, if you see Maya Angelou or any other scum like that listed, you probably don’t even need the book and would be better reading up on it from another source.
One plus one has been equaling two for a thousand years or so.
-PJ
“What the hell is this BS? Isn’t this what school taxes are supposed to be paying for?!?”
No, it’s to send socialist back to congress every 2 years.
I didn’t even know you had to pay for school books when I moved here. Where I grew up the books were supplied to you along with paper and pencils and erasers. That’s just ridiculous and I know before my child starts going to school, I plan on moving out of this state. Call me crazy, but I refuse to pay for something again when my tax dollars have already paid for it!
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