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These textbooks are very clear that their first priority is to teach religious principles and that science needs to take a back seat to that, and it's the judgment of the university faculty that that's not a very effective way to teach science.

Christopher Patti

I understand that books can be a real financial pinch for students, but buying a quality book, and spending a lot of time with it, is one of the best habits you can have in life. I still have a lot of my textbooks, especially from law school, and they are very valuable to me.

John Zelezny

It will rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

Jim Graf

We feel strongly they do have the authority and responsibility to review textbooks. Textbooks are purchased with money out of the state's Permanent School Fund, and the state board has a constitutional responsibility to oversee how those funds are spent.

Peggy Venable

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

Jerry Falwell

I had a bill to study textbooks costs drafted after being approached by students who expressed their concerns over the ever-increasing costs of textbooks.

Sen. Claire Robling

Because textbooks are the backbone of classroom instruction, we must demand improvement so that our students can acquire the knowledge and skills they will need for more advanced learning.

George Nelson

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

John Hope Franklin

This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.

Alan Stern

This spacecraft is going to rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

James Graf

I don't want to teach, consult or sell textbooks.

Jeffrey Weaver

Students who can't afford textbooks now are forced to make some tough decisions, such as picking and choosing which books are more important, or just not purchasing books for a semester. It seems relatively simple, but it makes a huge difference, especially to those students who struggle to afford their textbooks each semester.

Jim Kline

We went away from them because they were not suiting our needs. Frankly, some of the textbooks we have in supply are not adequate. In some areas, we are waiting for those adoptions to come.

Robert Keener

It's truly rewarding knowing that at the end of the day, not only have international sales been spectacular, but people worldwide have benefited from a very remarkable medical product. The lessons I learned have not come from seminars, textbooks or advice; rather, they have come from practice in the global playing field, which hones the necessary skills to succeed in the marketplace.

Jeff Dzuira

Right now, what we know about Pluto could be written on the back of a postage stamp. After this mission, we'll be able to fill textbooks.

Colleen Hartman

There's now an avalanche of poker books coming out. We have a reputation for putting out the very best books and we have no competitors in that respect. We're not putting out trivial books. These are like textbooks.

Mason Malmuth

We think of these laptop computers as the textbooks of tomorrow.

Ted Gibbs

Teacher tenure is a myth, ... California teachers only have basic due process rights so they aren't fired for arbitrary reasons like speaking out on behalf of textbooks for their students. Proposition 74 just adds millions in costs to the current evaluation system and does absolutely nothing to improve education or help students.

Sharon Scott

A teacher always has to make the effort. Whether it's Chicano history or any other. We don't want to go back to the way things were, back when black kids got hand-me-down text books after white kids had used them ? if they got textbooks at all.

Barbara Jean Washington

What we know about Pluto could be printed on the back of a postage stamp. The textbooks will be rewritten when this mission is completed. The true nature of this mission is to find the answers to questions we don't even know how to ask.

Colleen Hartman

From the publisher's point of view, there are lots of issues because students buy books and sell them back. Future students might only buy the used textbooks.

John Harwood

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

The hero with a great heart will become more real to Chinese of all ages when he leaps from the pages of textbooks and onto the silver screen in the serial.

Yang Yang

All you have to do is look at the textbooks, ... They are being rewritten page by page, Hubble image after Hubble image.

Anne Kinney

The State Board of Education sets aside monies to pay for textbooks. The catch, however, is that the Constitution gives the Legislature appropriations authority. Though we set it aside for textbooks, the Legislature has to appropriate it.

Gail Lowe

Students are the stockholders in the university system and deserve to have their vote count on issues such as taxes on textbooks, tuition increases and funding for different universities.

James Touchton

Although history textbooks contain facts and information and historical fiction provides entertainment, well-told biographies bridge the gap for children by combining historical accuracy along with engaging stories. It is time to bridge that gap for the middle grade student.

Terri Johnson

We found out a lot more about real German culture than we would have from our textbooks.

Steve Hendrickson

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

Wang Xuming

Teachers and textbooks... those are the two most costly items our districts will incur. That's what they're hoping the federal government will pick up the tab for.

Suzanne Marchman

Textbooks will be written about this case.

Dan Dalton

These textbooks will be created in Africa so they will represent the unique experiences of African students.

Laura Bush

I think in the past we've had some concerns with not paying for our bills, but we've been doing a lot better with that these last two years, we've actually been able to get textbooks on island and in the schools before the opening of the school year.

Juan Flores

These monuments are playing a role of textbooks that helps Japanese people learn about the wartime history and Japanese aggressors' atrocities over the Chinese people.

Wang Yi

I think Mr. Bah can give students an understanding of Sierra Leone they would not have gotten from textbooks or teachers.

Gabriel Dupree

What we know about Pluto today could fit on the back of a postage stamp. The textbooks will be rewritten after this mission is completed.

Colleen Hartman

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.

Albert Bandura

I think we should teach a lot about evolution. In fact, I think we should teach more than the evolutionary science teachers want the students to know. The problem is what we're getting is a philosophy that's claimed to be scientific fact, a lot of distortion in the textbooks, and all the difficult problems left out, because they don't want people to ask tough questions.

Phillip Johnson

Our goal is to have some large general education courses next fall where the textbooks are digital.

John Harwood

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

Yasuo Fukuda

Education will be a theme in the next presidential election. It's one thing that this country is not doing well enough. Several states are going to be adopting new textbooks. This company has spent a lot of money to prepare, so you're going to go into a period of rising revenues, declining costs and powerful positive profit growth. And it's selling at 13 times forward fourth quarter earnings.

Houghton Mifflin

When we textbooks, they come with content we can't deliver.

Bob Mcdonough

Being a Black American man, I don't think (public schools) taught me enough about my culture. Even today the textbooks are lacking.

Doug Harris

We're totally opposed to inserting sexual orientation into textbooks in our schools. This is more than just accepting it, it's forcing our kids to embrace it, almost celebrate it.

Karen England

Students are comfortable with online delivery, price sensitive and increasingly looking for lower-cost alternatives to print textbooks.

David Hakensen

We used to buy the textbooks back from them, but we didn't sell our inventory last year.

Tom Larson

Students who do not use their textbooks, attend classes or complete assignments are only denying themselves the full benefit of the course.

Jack Murphy

We have to have more than textbooks, we need text-people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Budgets are tight and people would rather see the money go to textbooks and football fields.

Gina Deangelo

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.

Katherine Anne Porter

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

A lot of what they get in the textbooks is hard to apply in the real world. That's where the software comes into play.

Debbie Murry

In September 1991, I joined my dad, Dr. Cecil Todd, for a meeting with the Ministry of Education in charge of all of the public schools of Russia. In this meeting we were granted the approval, endorsement and encouragement to distribute Bibles as textbooks in the public schools of Russia.

Tim Wildmon

We have a late 19th, 20th century way of looking at textbooks. This is the 21st century.

Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg