How interesting that Dr. Sylvester uses a Winston Churchill quote as his new signature line. Yes, let's look at the results. When I was looking for textbooks several years ago for my high school intro and AP classes (just before the excellent Blair-Broecker/Ernst text was published), the one I selected was David Myers, Psychology for both classes. It is a wonderful well written book and yes, it did have its shortcomings. What intro book doesn't? What I found was that in each new edition, Dr. Myers made a serious effort to address that. What does that mean to me? It meant that Dr. Myers was willing to listen to comments and emails and make the changes as all good authors do. Can you make everybody happy with an intro book, no. But when teaching jaded teens, I found that they were very much in like with Dr. Myers. My AP scores proved that. Did one have to supplement? Yes and again, there were lists of materials available for picking and choosing. Do I have a bias? Yup. You for no reason I can see other that wasting 3 posts a day are attacking someone for no reason. Have I ever met Dr. Myers, no. Do I wish I had? Yes, since I live about 2 hours from his beloved Hope College. Instead, I encouraged students who wanted to major in psychology to attend Hope so they could study with him. They had nothing but praise for him. So Dr. Sylvester, where's your proof that Myers is a lousy book?
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