[siftrics]

You have to have a pretty helpless attitude to blame someone else (teachers) on your inability to learn from a good textbook.

How are you ever going to learn anything truly novel in the world if you always delegate teaching to a teacher?

[SaintRomuald]

I shouldn't need to read a 500page textbook to understand a class that a teacher has been 'teaching' for 20 years. He's there to give me an understanding of the subject. I have at least 5 classes each semester which are very technical and difficult, it's impossible for me to read a textbook on each while also reading a 20-30 page lab instruction each night, all written in a technical language which I barely understand. I can try but so many times constant consumption of this literature lead to burnout

[HelloNurse]

"Technical and difficult": there are both important concepts and broad strokes that your teacher should be good at explaining, and important details that should be explored in a textbook because they need good pictures, data, editing etc. more than good explanations.

Taking a longer time than normal to learn a topic and prepare university exams might be a good alternative to burnout; or maybe your lifestyle and/or intellect are incompatible with studying.

[angra_mainyu]

The entitlement in your comment is staggering...

Why such a desire to be spoonfed, whining about having to put in the work?

[tekla]

We call this "University"

[throwaway98797]

no one is there to give you anything

they are there to give you a chance

maybe it is impossible for you to do this, but it’s clearly not impossible for others

that challenge is valuable information

maybe a different area is a better pursuit for you

or maybe a better way to view learning

good luck

[ajkjk]

You are just wrong. There is a lot more that goes into teaching a subject better than 'generating a better textbook'. There are thousands of hours of work that need to happen to figure out how to make the subject make more sense. It is not a question of 'writing down known result sin a different order'. The subject needs to be reworked in its entirely. Advanced results need to be made elementary. Simple formulations of complex ideas need to be discovered, articulated, and developed into exercises. Out of every available model the best models need to be picked and refined and tested. Etc. And then you have to get everyone on board with the project!

Almost none of the work is 'rewriting the book.'