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eigencoder 3 hours ago

Back when they had textbooks. Increasingly the curriculum is online and restricts exploration

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kccqzy 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Textbooks don’t need a lot of revisions though. Basic math has not really changed that much. One of my favorite textbooks I used as a kid was written ten years before I was born.

	▲	wombatpm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When I started Chemistry in college, Professor Zumdahl said to by a copy of the CRC Press Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Whether it was new or used didn’t really matter - it’s not like Boltzmann’s constant is changing all that often.