This created situations in which what the textbooks taught was immediately contradicted by reality.
Current textbooks defining politics do not even mention natural abilities, focusing instead on the art or science of governing, shrewdness in promoting a policy, and contrivance.
She sketched on the borders of her textbooks and on her blotting-paper, and was even guilty of purloining bits of coloured chalk from the blackboard box, and smudging impressionistic portraits of her comrades on spare pages of essay paper.
He acquired his education in the common and normal schools of his native country and after putting aside his textbooks began learning the miller's trade, with which he became thoroughly familiar.
After putting aside his textbooks he worked with his father until 1907, when he started out independently as an agriculturist, taking charge of his father's large holdings, which he has managed with marked success to the present time.
When not busy with his textbooks his attention was given to the home farm and he was thus well qualified to undertake any branch of farm work.
When not busy with his textbooks his attention was given to the work of the farm and he assisted in the tasks of plowing, planting and harvesting.
After putting aside his textbooks he entered the service of a railroad company and continued in that line of work for six years.
He acquired a common school education and when not busy with his textbooks his attention was given to the work of the fields, for he was early trained to the tasks of plowing, planting and harvesting.
After his textbooks were put aside he worked for some time in a grocery store in Los Angeles and in April, 1895, came to Walla Walla, Washington, where he entered the employ of the Walla Walla Produce Company.
When not busy with his textbooks he worked in the fields and thus early received the training which well qualified him to begin farming on his own account when he attained his majority.
When his textbooks were put aside he concentrated his entire attention upon farming and became identified with the agricultural interests of Walla Walla county, where he owned nine hundred and sixty acres of valuable land.
After his textbooks were put aside he became connected with the Kansas City Journal, with which he was identified for seven years.
After putting aside his textbooks he engaged in railroad work for several years and then spent three years and a half in Alaska, but in November, 1900, he returned to Walla Walla county.
He made good use of his time and opportunities in that direction and when not busy with his textbooks he was assisting in the work of the home farm and thus learning valuable lessons in the school of experience.
After putting aside his textbooks he sought the opportunities offered in the new world, crossing the Atlantic in 1902, when a young man of eighteen years.
When his textbooks were put aside he turned his attention to banking and became familiar with that business in Dannebrog, so that he was well qualified by experience to enter upon a similar field when he came to Waitsburg, Washington.
After putting aside his textbooks he accordingly began farming on his own account and devoted his attention to that business until his death.
It happened to be one of thetextbooks in use at Trinity.
Contact with things and laboratory exercises, while a great improvement upon textbooks arranged upon the deductive plan, do not of themselves suffice to meet the need.
One newspaper claimed that of the total number of books published in 1972, only approximately one-third were so-called real books, meaning that they were not simply textbooks or brochures.
It arranges for the publication of all school textbooks and supervises the work of the people's councils at the local level.
The explanation is, of course, that many of these textbooks are mere compilations containing false statements, unproved theories, and unverified clinical evidence representing the guesswork of ancient uncritical observers.
Neither is it mentioned in the leading textbooks on materia medica, pharmacology or therapeutics.
The sooner writers of textbooks realize this fact and enter into the spirit of the new era, the better for the public and for scientific medicine.
The phrase "All men are mortal" figures in textbooks of logic as the truest of truisms.
The book had an immediate and signal success; in after years it was twice rewritten by the author, to accommodate it to the rapid advances made by the science, and it is still one of our best textbooks of chemistry.
Just then they were all at school again cramming with all the available textbooks about French big guns.
They did not need to depend on textbooks alone, for the camp contained types of most styles of French artillery.
He acquired his education in the public schools of Wisconsin and after his textbooks were put aside learned the carpenter's and builder's trade, which he followed for a considerable period.
When his textbooks were put aside he was appointed to the position of deputy state grain inspector, in which capacity he served for a year.
Through the periods of vacation prior to this time he had become an active assistant of his father in farm work and after his textbooks were put aside he continued to follow farming in connection with his father until 1910.
For further details about various dynamites, see textbooks on explosives.
For information concerning chemical substances, such as the nitro-toluenes and other nitro-compounds, reference should be made to the textbooks on explosives and chemistry.
Real textbooks of religion which are based on the principles used in making day-school texts.
That textbooks in religion will cost more than the present cheap form of material is possible.
Our scientific discoveries have come out of the pressure of necessities that nature has put upon us, and what we now put into our textbooks first was lived by men and women in the midst of the day's activities.
The arts textbooks were still grammar, logic, Donatus, and Aristotle.
Many schoolmistresses wrote textbooks on a variety of subjects.
Besides reading textbooks in Latin, the students observed at court and did work for practicing attorneys.
So there were anatomy textbooksand anatomy was related to surgery.
The method of teaching was for the teacher to read textbooks to the class from a prepared curriculum.
Among older textbooks on heat, Tyndall's Heat may be recommended for its vivid popular interest, and Balfour Stewart's Heat for early theories of radiation.
He succeeded in abolishing the old-fashioned medieval textbooks and methods of instruction, and led his pupils to the study of the classical authors themselves.
These are known in our anatomical textbooks by the natural but absurd name of "muscles of expression.
In practically all our modern textbooks of medicine, rheumatism is included under the head of infections.
It is so much easier to take one's problems from the textbooks than to dig them up in the shops or on the farm as to be practically irresistible unless one is being watched.
They get the idea that the student who has mastered a certain number of pages in a textbook is educated, forgetting that textbooks are at best but tools, and in many cases ineffective tools, for the development of man.
The textbooks in use came largely from the United States and glorified that land and all its ways in the best Fourth-of-July manner, to the scandal of the loyal elect.
Circumstances made it desirable, in the absence of any existing textbooks on the subject, to print at once, for the sake of ready reference, the substance of the lectures while they were being delivered.
Since 1770, forestry courses had been given for the cameralists at most of the German universities, and many of the professors prepared textbooks for the purpose.
The technical book literature, partly due, no doubt, to the overpowering publication facilities of the federal government, is still scanty, and good textbooks especially are still lacking in most branches.
They visited the school, where young Kragans were being taught to read Lingua Terra and studied fromtextbooks printed in Johannesburg and Sydney and Buenos Aires.
And then, after it was declassified, it had been so far superseded that it was of only antiquarian interest; the textbooks dealt with it only in general terms.
Elementary textbooks or methods should never present two difficulties to the mind at the same time; and such textbooks or methods should be an assemblage of means adapted to aid ordinary intelligences to gain the object proposed.
They will in most cases be unable to answer, for neither teachers nor textbooks explain.
Reference or textbooks are so pointedly referred to that pupils not only remember their names, they want to turn to them to enjoy their contributions.
It prevents the teacher from degenerating into a mere talker, and, where textbooks are used, should be the most vital part of the recitation.
A description of it is frequently given in physical textbooks as an introduction to the chapter on Heat.
For lack of a guiding idea they are treated in the textbooks as 'irregularities'.
In modern textbooksthe nature of the cause of physical movement is usually defined as follows: 'Any change in the state of movement of a portion of matter is the result of the action on it of another portion of matter.
For this reason textbooks quite rightly say that only the results drawn from these terrestrial observations have the value of empirically observed facts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "textbooks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
