In miniature, that's how the whole of this inspired parody civics textbook works.
Learning from a textbook works fine for subjects like history or algebra, but it's less than ideal for improving the skills required to hustle a motorcycle down a winding road.
My students' memories are filled with the same list: teacher lecture and silent students, rote memorization, textbooks, work sheets, tests and irrelevant content void of emotion and controversy.
Macmillan Publishers Ltd., formerly Macmillan & Co., British publishing house that is one of the largest in the world, producing textbooks, works of science and literature, and high-quality periodicals.
There are tips out there on how to avoid college debt, such as applying for as many scholarships as possible, buying used textbooks, working on campus or in paid internships, making sure you receive as much financial aid as possible through Pell and state grants.
Students reported spending much of their time studying textbooks, working on the wards and attending tutorials (Table 3).
They also reported the amount of time they spent using variable learning methods: studying lecture slides or textbooks, working in a group, creating questions, studying the pool of the students' questions and others (studying clinical guidelines, other pools of questions, web-based resources or miscellaneous).
(Or his: Ms. Tomlin's mimicry of a man lifting weights is textbook bicep work, down to the breathing).
For Bailey, who had little experience with the material, this was particularly important because "it's really hard to stick your fingers in and get going," and if you only have a textbook to work with, the entry points to the material are limited, often inaccessible and not particularly engaging.
The NSA reportedly infected 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software with the sole aim of harvesting sensitive information it wasn't privy to, which is basically what you'd call textbook spy work in the digital age, from an agency tasked with spying.
