Instructional Materials Quotes

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

Books are absent teachers.

There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around.

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

People hate to and will not read instructions.

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down.

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

The instruction manual for my Motorola phone is bigger and heavier than the phone.

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.