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- From: "norman danner" <ndanner@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: Undergraduate textbooks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.205052.28102@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <2B11196B.8137@news.service.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:50:43 -0500
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- In article <2B11196B.8137@news.service.uci.edu> dpick@math.uci.edu (Daniel Pick) writes:
- >...How do we get better
- >texts into the classroom, or conversely, how do we discourage publishers
- >from printing this stuff? I, for one, refuse to buy these kinds of texts.
-
- I think this is probably about the best way. Just don't buy them. AND
- DON'T USE THEM IN YOUR CLASSES. I'm of the opinion that at my undergrad
- institution, the vast majority of professors just used whatever book was
- recommended by the dep't, instead of looking for something worthwhile
- (the recommended ones were usually trash, like Ross). So maybe if all
- professors were to spend a little time researching the possible books
- for a course, and only used decent ones, publishers and potential authors
- would get the idea. Yes, I'm aware that "decent" is very subjective,
- but I think everyone probably gets the idea I'm trying to get across here.
- And I'm also aware that this involves a time committment which some
- professors may feel is too great. My response to that is that they shouldn't
- be teaching (or their department shouldn't advertise itself as a
- teaching institution).
-
- --
- Norman Danner | The only difference between mathematicians
- The Semantic Nihilist | and philosophers is that mathematicians
- ndanner@indiana.edu | throw away their scratch paper.
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