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No Books, No Problem

Geoff Ruth, Feb 24, 2005

According to this author, a high school chemistry teacher, "The students in my general chemistry class almost never open their textbook. My reason: The less I use the book, the more they learn." Over the last few years, he writes, he has banished textbooks from his classroom - for the better. "Most bore my students and frustrate me... Many promulgate scientific misconceptions or even outright errors... They present ideas didactically as discrete facts to be accepted, rather than as clues of principles to be discovered and explored."

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