So why can't textbooks be for students? Cool, modern, focused on today's pop culture, what is it in? Dictionaries would have dictionaries of unknown words from the text, the text would give enough important information and would not contain any extra ballast, and most importantly there would be interesting graphic elements and illustrative photographs. The only goal of the teacher should be to prepare for real life.
They would have dictionaries of unknown words from the text along the edges, the text would give enough important information and would not contain any extra ballast, and most importantly there would be interesting graphic elements and illustrative photographs.