Associations to the word «Textbook»

Wiktionary

TEXTBOOK, noun. A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
TEXTBOOK, adjective. Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
TEXTBOOK, adjective. Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.

Dictionary definition

TEXTBOOK, noun. A book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy".
TEXTBOOK, adjective. According to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn