Textbooks bore everybody

This opinion piece is very good. It talks about how textbooks don't help anyone and bore everyone to death. Here is a good excerpt of him ripping an english textbook:

What doesn't work...The Language of Literature:World Literature (McDougal Littel)

Assessment: Reduces literature to memorizing authors' names and dates. By trying to please every racial and ethnic group, it includes boring and inconsequential literature.

Weight: 7 pounds

Pages:1,551

Complete poems: 63

Complete short stories: 15

Complete plays: 4

Excerpts: 44

I talked with my sister about this. We talked about how textbooks become this box of learning, where when we were in school, couldn't imagine anything but learning anything from one. It teaches you to not think on your own- to always expect someone to break something down and explain things to you. It definitely doesn't encourage creativity and all the little shit teachers try to supplement them with just seems trendy and pointless (whether it's some stupid craft project, or flashcards or anything lame they were taught at some teacher workshop).
Teachers need to start telling stories so that we know we're paying them to do something else than be glorified babysitters. They need to expect much more of their students, not treat them as though they must dumb everything down and go slow in order for them to understand.
I am not totally ripping textbooks. I am ripping textbooks as being the source for almost every piece of information taught in school. I liked my texbooks, I read my history ones like they were novels. English, science, and math though? There is a better way than textbooks for those subjects. Textbooks are a crutch for teachers, schools, and the entire educational process. We need to engage kids more just like that article says. Also we need to worry about content and important things, not social engineering(that goes for the left and the right- Bush's intelligent design plan seems stupid).