Text books are inefective

Being a college student you have to of course read you text books. My only problem is that text books dont teach you crap. Sure they may have definitions, and may teach a conept, but how often do they actaully teach us something, or better yet actaully tell us how to do it. Math books never seem to teach you where things go, how its done, and anything else that could help. My accounting book has examples, but they dont teach me how I am supposed to get to that point. Its just a picture showing what it looks like, not how to actaully do it.

It seems almost all text books are like this. During my past semester, and in my current one I learned more in class, or from being tutored than reading the text book. Infact the reason I have to go to tutoring almost everyday is because the text book does nothing to explain what the hell I'm supposed to do. So why dont profecors give us these books. Well I have two ideas why.

First of all they are too lazy to actually do any of the teaching themselves, or that's the only way they know how to do it. In one of my classes last semester I learned so much from my entrepreneurship that I knew more about it than any other subject, and he did not give  us a text book, nor asked us to take notes.  Why did this work so well? Because an engaged conversation works better than any other form of learning in my belief. Sure I learned a lot from one of my lecture classes, but not as much as the one that actually had us talk with the teacher.

There is nothing wrong with reading books, or listening to others, but I believe to truly master something; to truly learn from it in the perfect way you need to assert yourself to it, and/or get first hands on it.