Final exams start at my university this week . . .

. . . and Robert Lawson has posted an appropriate picture. He titles it "Higher education in the 21st Century in a single picture".

Comments

[michael]

A good deal, if you ask me. I would have stopped purchasing text books altogether were it not so hard to predict which ones I would actually use.

In 90 percent of my classes the textbook is completely useless. I never even open the book but still get good grades and understand the material. For these classes I just take good notes and use resources like the internet, JSTOR and other databases for research (this often gives me a far better picture of whats going on than the "social justice orientated" textbooks I am required to buy.

The only textbooks I really recall having to read in depth were for accounting, real estate economics, econometrics and Ancient Greek. I used math textbooks just to do homework.

(This doesn't count primary sources like novels or original works of philosophy.)

[Michael Hart]

Very nice. I'll have to remember this for the Economics final next week. I particularly like how its located next to a McDonalds. They should combine and we could rent the textbooks in the drive thru.