Why are important academic subjects written about (in the text books) in such a boring, awful way?

Ikea instruction books hold your hand and feed you the information like a mom holding your hand. Because if your product isn't functional it's worthless technically (you can return it).

So why are subjects that you need to be considered valuable written automatically in the way they'ed be applied from the viewpoint of an engineer?

Like, you really expect me to know what it's like to manage 10 employees who all get paid between 10-50,000 dollars? To get the mean median and mode? Or average sallary?

Why can't they say, step one is take these cookies here and put them over there.

When am I going to own an poses millions to fund employees and an enterprise.

I know, after you get some practice in math or another subject like english, it's pretty straight forward. Just another application of the process.

But why is it always skipping out on the normal average perspective and then put in the weirdest possible to comprehend perspective.

Shouldn't this stuff just be pushed aside anyways to propell people to actually study the important subjects (like I dunno, what ever pertains to the desired major and career).

Wtf is the point in submersing people in unfamilure steps and circumstances with the applications of information before actually learning the applications of the information?! To kill off the procrastinators darwin style or something? It's horrible, when you can teach a 5 year old something insanely complex like minecraft.

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They probably do it that way to make the textbooks bigger (more pages), hence they can then charge higher prices for the books.

It's well-known that school textbook publishers have been price-gouging students for at least 20 years now. The matter was actually brought to the attention of Congress… Which did nothing about it, as usual.

I can't believe the cost of some of my college textbooks (when I was in college). I had one accounting textbook that was fairly-well written, but it was about $160 because they included all sorts of unnecessary color photos. That book actually has a hologram on the cover! Another expensive accounting book I have has a completely irrelevant color embossed photo on the cover. These are just things textbook publishers use to jack up their prices.

I was a mathematics major in college, and I've seen some textbooks that were not especially helpful, i.e., the author 'glosses over' some important topic(s) with only a few obscure examples. Apparently the student is supposed to magically figure out theorems or applications with no examples. (Sometimes I was able to do that, sometimes not. It *does* feel good when you 'discover' how to do things with no real guidance, I will admit that.)

I've seen physics textbooks like what you describe, and I still remember one economics textbook I had which was the worst thing ever. It had NO formulas in it. NONE. The author (who somehow also happened to be the 'professor' of the class) just used lame words to describe things. How is a student supposed to learn economics from reading some book that reads like a novel and includes no formulas? I managed to pass the class, but it was the worst grade I got in college (somewhere in the C grade range). That was a 'textbook' that I immediately threw away after the course ended. It was worthless (but cost a pretty penny).

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