30 Least Educational Books
posted by Mark on June 3rd, 2010In an online school, you may or may not have hard-copy textbooks, but suffice it to say, if your professor assigns any of these texts as required reading, it might be time to drop that class. (Yes, we’re judging books by their covers.)
The Obvious:
How to Watch Football on Television by Chris Schenkel (1965)
Old Age: Its Cause & Prevention by Sanford Bennett (1912)
How to Abandon Ship by Phil Richards and John J. Banigan (1942)
Why I Hate the Nazis by Milton J. Wynne (1945)
The Disadvantages of Being Dead by A.R.D. Fairburn (1958)
Born to Run: The O.J. Simpson Story by Larry Fox (1974)
How to Avoid Huge Ships by John W. Trimmer (1992)
How to Write a How to Write Book by Brian Piddock (2007)
The Contradictory:
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren (1940)
Understanding Senility by Virginia Fraser and Susan M. Thornton (1987)
The Truth About Fonzie by Peggy Herz (1976)
The Dated:
Metric Power: Why and How We Are Going Metric by Richard Deming (1973)
Disco Roller Skating by Dale A. Marzano (1979)
For Men Only: Styling and Techniques by Louise Cotter (1994)
What to Do When the Russians Come by Robert Conquest and Jon Manchip White (1985)
Will Christ Return by 1988? by Colin Deal (1979)
Get the Message: Telecommunications in Your High-Tech World by Gloria Skurzynski (1993)
The Ridiculous:
How to Bombproof a Horse by Rick Pelicano (2004)
Cheese Problems Solved by P.L.H. McSweeney (2007)
A Million Random Digits by Rand Corporation (1955)
The (Virtually) Impossible:
Invisibility: Mastering the Art of Vanishing by Steve Richards (1982)
The Teach Your Chicken to Fly Manual by Trevor Weekes (1983)
How to Be Pope by Piers Marchant (2005)
You Can Make a Stradivarius Violin by Joseph V. Reid (1955)
Versailles: The View from Sweden by Elaine Dee and Guy Walton (1988)
If We Can Keep a Severed Head Alive…by Chet Fleming (1988)
The Just Plain Wrong:
Does the Earth Rotate? No! by William Westfield (1919)
Elvis: The Messiah? by Jack D. Mallay and Warren Vaughn (1993)
When Children Invite Child Abuse by Svea J. Gold (1986)
Eleanor Roosevelt by Wyatt Blassingame (1967)
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