Should faculty sell complementary copies to book resellers?

I will try to answer this question from the perspective of a supervised student teacher; remember all is well.  My father, was a faculty tenured Professor at California State University of Sacramento.  With a Baccalaureate Degree from Howard University Undergraduate program and a Jurist Doctorate from the Law School of Howard Universities west campus and gosh his credentials have been maintained.

In the distant past he often allowed me to sit in on class discussions.  My father would bring newspaper articles as ice teasers because the developed more group participation and careless debate.  As he rise and fell with career opportunities one thing amounted to a constant.  He supported all of his book assignments with News stories and became a hardliner for his students studying to become correctional peace officers in the earlier mid 1980′s.  They of all people needed reform, good judgment, and charisma often shared by his references to his troubled son not yet in college.

As a Attorney he too couldn’t call for bookish reputations or protecting aggressive fires.  He was barely street legal.  Unfortunately students were getting there education the best way they understood.  Depending on the subject at hand; a book can have special application. But books that emphasized theory can be learned in the classroom; they wouldn’t have to be purchased at all, for the grace of the merit.  Books that teach mechanics or technical terms might not require any distinguishing presentation at all either.  Simply put books that teach rules, laws, and practical applications won’t matter as well as long as student find a way to get what they need in the classroom.

If you want complimentary text books, believe it?  I don’t see the harm that my tenured father of 35 years sought, when he replied to this question at California State University of Sacramento.  I feel as though it just another resource teaching manipulative.  But I don’t agree that it’s junk mail.  If you couldn’t fare willingly as a individual indicative of the bounty redeemed by all, what could make us happy?

Now we both remember Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 where a fireman, Guy Montage, forces the community to destroy its books. Would you remember your complimentary one?  This isn’t a far exception but don’t you think that publishers should prepare there works to take some shots?  There are a lot books that we do have to read.  Like George Orwell’s 1984.

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