MS>In a message of , Tom Cotton (1:3819/128) writes:
MS> TC>
  > TC>Did you require your text to be used by the students in your class ?
MS>No.  I taught the course it is used for for quite a few years, but I have 
no
  > taught it since the book came out.  Furthermore, if I did
  >assign the book, I  would have to turn over the royalties
  >on those copies to a scholarship fund.  Since we never
  >know who buys a new text, a used text, or no text, that
  >would  be an interesting exercise to carry out.
MS>My colleagues have elected to use the book most of the time
  >since it first  appeared quite a while back, but I stay
  >completely out of all discussion of  whether or not the
  >book should be used. Since it is used at Harvard,
  >Berkeley, and various other places, I don't think our
  >students are  short-changed if my colleagues do decide to use it.
Hi Mort, straight forward honest answer.  I did not mean to insinuate
you were promoting your book by its use in your class room.  My
curiosity is simply that some professors write books and they are
required text in their course.  In fact they may be better than the
generic text from major publishing companies.  Hopefully the colleges
/schools in question police that internally to some extent.
My distrust of the National curriculum idea is simply the opportunity for
corruption and the limiting of variety.  At 45 I remember a scam that was
run when I was in high school.  Before desegregation we were required to
buy our own text books.  The text were changed every two years or so
even though the subject areas had not.  That made used books useless
after a couple years.  The end result was that after several inditements
it was discovered certain parties were getting kickbacks from the book
publishers through local book stores to change the books.  Desegregation
limited the practice to some extent since the district and not the
students had to purchase the books.
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