[jjice]

Absolutely agree. I always saw textbooks as a thing I had to read or a place to find the homework problems, not a place to learn.

Then I had a professor who had an accent I struggled to understand. Thankfully, she picked a fantastic Linear Algebra textbook. That's when I realized that the textbook is debatably the most important part of a class (at least for math and science).

[treeman79]

Old math teacher would put homewoek assignment on board at start of day.

So I would just solve it during class. Teaching myself from the book.

One day assignment wasn’t on board. So I asked her for it so I could do it during class.

She was confused and asked me how I was going to learn the material if I wasn’t paying attention.

Well it turns out people get really upset when you logically explain how you don’t need them since the book teaches it just fine.