Textbook-Stalking

When you're so bored of reading your textbook, you go to the list of names on the front cover and look them up on Facebook.

Yo dude I was so bored reading that AP world texting book, that I totally started textbook-stalking.

by Allahforchantilly September 12, 2011

Textbook Warrior

*Someone who claims knowledge in combat operations and/or combat tactics but has never been in a combat situation.

*Someone who only gets their tactical knowledge from a reference and not from actual experience.

*Also known as a REMF or POG

That guy teaching weapons qual is a real Textbook Warrior, he's never even been in the Military!

by AirborneRiot April 15, 2008

textbook basic

noun: one whose lifestyle, personality, behaviors, or situation are so simple that they are described completely and frequently in various foundational, introductory, or base-level textbooks; often but not necessarily one who finds great difficulty in circumstances with which a reasonable person would not struggle

David is such a textbook basic that my Psych 101 book had covered all of his problems by the third page.

by chronofiler October 22, 2014

Textbook Immigrant

Anyone oriental who substitues 'R' where 'L' should be in English Pronounication without noticing

'Crod I have some Remon Juice?'

'We won't serve such a Textbook Immigrant here'

'Oh, I aporogise'

by PsuedonymAntonym July 19, 2009

Textbook Preaching

Textbook preaching occurs when a teacher (usually a supply/cover teacher who is relatively inexperienced) teaches pupils by relying solely on the contents of whichever textbook relates to her current lesson (e.g. a teacher covering in Chemistry reading verbatim from a chemistry textbook)
More often than not, this method does absolutely nothing to help students learn, other than reinforcing already-negative attitudes about supply teachers and forcing pupils to seek out their own means of learning.
The only exceptions include teachers assigning tasks from the textbook or simply asking students to read extracts.

Pupil 1: Can you believe that? The supply teacher isn't even bothering, is she?

Pupil 2: How so?

Pupil 1: She's reading the contents of the textbook word-for-word! Classic case of textbook preaching.

Pupil 2: True that.

by The Silent King April 25, 2014

textbook education

Learning something intellectually, as from written or verbal instruction, rather than learning through actual experience.

Although he had received a very thorough textbook education in how to deliver a baby, the intern had no hands-on experience with actual childbirth.

by NW Knows January 20, 2016

Textbook Jockey

Someone who knows nothing except what they have learnt in textbooks. They are closed minded insincere and backwards thinking.

Girl 1: How did your therapy session go yesterday?

Guy: It was a waste of time, just another textbook jockey... She was literally reading me questions straight from her computer.

by my mAin Hack June 22, 2016