How much time does he spend reading textbooks?
The players clustered at round tables, reading textbooks or writing.
Rather than listening to lectures, reading textbooks and regurgitating on exams, students should learn by doing — projects, traveling, volunteering.
"He was reading textbooks this big, and they're in class holding up a blowup M," she said.
But notice how many are reading textbooks and computer printouts, heading for the high schools and universities.
But the science in the book required a painstaking and at times brain-hurting education — hours reading textbooks and papers, but also listening to some admirably patient teachers.
There were a lot of long nights in my flat just catching up, reading textbooks, going online for lectures, emailing lecturers.
"The work experience I've had has been more useful than just reading textbooks, as it throws you in at the deep end – especially if you're working for someone who has deadlines to meet.
Ms. Pill hired an agent at 10 after a successful gig reading textbooks on tape and quickly found steady work on American and Canadian television in Toronto, her hometown.
But I'm not just reading textbooks: I think there are certain types of books that help strengthen motivation, and crucially, develop a better understanding of the people we'll be caring for – because doctors deal with people, not just anatomy.
Rettberg, who now directs iGEM, had absolutely no background in biology until, after retiring as a chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems in 2001, he started reading textbooks and hanging around Knight's lab; the two friends worked early in their careers on designing computers.
