March 11, 2007

Dumbass leftist comment of the day

In an article about the rising cost of textbooks:

Danny Katz, a campus organizer with the California Public Research Interest Group, said publishers are overdoing it.

"Certainly there are some subjects with a legitimate need for a new textbook every couple of years because the content changes so rapidly," Katz said. But "calculus hasn't changed in 300 years, so there's no need for a new edition of a textbook every couple of years."

The obvious answer is to let people like Mr. Katz decide what textbook publishers can and can't publish. You know, to protect the kids.

Expect a textbook on economics to then follow that would put little quotey-marks around the "theory" of supply and demand.

Because the first to receive justice when the Bolivarian Revolution hits el norte: those bloodsucking running dog bastard publishers of calculus textbooks.

Posted by Steve-O at March 11, 2007 06:45 PM | TrackBack
Comments

The reason the publishers have to come out with new editions of calculus books ... to make up for the failures of the new High School math curricula.

Posted by: quasimodo at March 12, 2007 06:43 AM