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Originally Posted by xianfox
While I'm all for electronic texts, my most memorable high school and university classes were taught by teachers who assembled their own educational material and didn't rely on a pre-printed textbook.
Of course, back in those days, I still had to pay for the teacher's text by paying a nominal fee to the copy center for a photocopy of it. I wish more teacher's had that kind of devotion to their profession.
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Where I went to college the teachers supplemented their income by publishing books the students had to buy. They would put out a revision every few years so you couldn't use used ones. I always went to class before buying the books because occasionally the teacher wouldn't even use the books on the list. Sometimes one was written by the head of the department and the teacher was required to put it on the written list but told us he/she wouldn't be using it.
Dale