Fifty years from now if an understanding of man’s origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

Native Americans cured Cartier’s men of scurvy near Montreal in 1535. They repaired Francis Drake’s Golden Hind in California so he could complete his round-the-world voyage in 1579. Lewis and Clark’s expedition to the Pacific...

It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that Zipperstein’s contribution to the field was reformulative and second-tier.

Matter is stranger than physics textbooks.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books.

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda – to complicate reading and literacy so...

It appeared clear to me – partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks – that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve...

My dad taught me everything I know about being a man, and most of what I know about being a woman. The rest I had to learn from textbooks.