tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27606211.post2194215314285909384..comments2023-06-04T11:38:40.921-04:00Comments on words / myth / ampers & virgule: If you don't like it, change itDick Margulishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10169512038331158003noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27606211.post-15509540225042035902010-04-19T15:47:09.303-04:002010-04-19T15:47:09.303-04:00This just creeps me out. The thought of anybody b...This just creeps me out. The thought of anybody being able to substitute their words for the author but leaving the author unknowingly responsible for those changes is just wrong. If a professor thinks he knows a subject better than the textbook author and feels he needs to address "mistakes," then he has two options. One, point out the "mistakes" and teach the students how to look at them with critical eyes and come to their own conclusions. Two, get off his lazy keister and write his own textbook. <br /><br />Anything else simply degrades the state of education beyond repair and teaches everybody that education as a whole is suspect. That way leads to disaster.<br /><br />Shawn R.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27606211.post-71655354420276097512010-02-22T16:28:49.236-05:002010-02-22T16:28:49.236-05:00This will also eliminate the ability of parents or...This will also eliminate the ability of parents or students to judge the quality of a college's program by the textbooks used by the department, when they can get that information. <br /><br />I think it is already a mess where a professor is allowed to assign a textbook he had written instead of the department-approved text in a beginning-level course. The students subjected to the badly written and organized textbook may never master the material necessary to comprehend the succeeding coursework.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00026699696336446875noreply@blogger.com