“Let’s start by burning all the textbooks”
Paper textbooks are problematic in two ways: First, they’re paper. Second, they’re textbooks. … But the worst thing about textbooks is that they’ve evolved into bland, unreadable products of interest group politics. Schools are trying to teach students to be literate, and to develop an ear for good language, then we force-feed them these hideous textbooks, which tend to be so stripped of blood and guts and heart (one definition of bad writing) that reading and learning become some kind of forced march through the educational-industrial complex, rather than the journey of discovery they’re supposed to be.
