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Collge Textbooks: Pain or Salvation - Page 2


© Flora Brown
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Oct 7, 1999


Finally, after you get your textbook and learn to use it you must learn to go beyond it. While your textbook is to your teacher what the Bible is to a preacher, YOU must not treat it as gospel. Your textbook is an important learning tool, but not the only one. During the lecture listen for suggestions on supplemental reading to your course topic: articles in magazines, television programs, movies and so on. Some textbooks (and dare I say teachers) lack the passion and controversy that make a course exciting. Students then must look for ways outside the text to make the information alive, meaningful and relevant.

College textbooks can be your salvation when you realize that they are a doorway, not a wall to learning.

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