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Some classes I've gone to were as you describe: pontificating the textbook, thus rendering either the class or the textbook useless toward learning the material
by tjr 18y ago
Some classes I've gone to were as you describe: pontificating the textbook, thus rendering either the class or the textbook useless toward learning the material.
But some classes... or I should say, some instructors... bring life and interest to the material in a way that the textbook cannot, and for them I have much respect and value their efforts.
- bmj 18y agoAnd, of course, this depends on the course, too. Not every course is based in a textbook, but rather in a text that isn't necessarily taught, but discussed.
- wyclif 18y agoAnd not every course /should/ be based on a textbook, either. Esp. not in the humanities. It's disgraceful when college Arts and Sciences faculty assign a textbook for PHIL 101 or Introduction to Plato. Why read a commentary on Plato when you can just pull The Republic off the shelf and read Plato's very words?