In the not-so-distant past, a college education was the cornerstone of the American Dream. With college costs spiraling out of control, textbook publishers are giddy by the notion that their grift of the textbook market has been left unscrutinized. With a cost of several hundred dollars per semester, textbook costs have been increasing, yet their contribution and value to the classroom outcome is decreasing. Why do students continue to blissfully shell out hard-earned money for a sub-optimal resource? The Internet is widely and freely available as a superset resource of the textbook. In fact, the distribution of books electronically has been proven to be a sustainable, cost-efficient model by products such as Amazon Kindle. Once a book is published in digital form, it can contribute to the corpus of knowledge on the Internet. Having the appropriate materials from textbooks is important, but there should be no greater success factor in the educational process than the transfer of knowledge between teacher and student. The most memorable classes that this author has ever attended were classes that the students were engaged organically. A teacher has this capability; a textbook not as much. Teachers must hold themselves accountable for engaging students, not with platitudes and selective choosing of introverted students to answer in front of a class, but with intellect, humor, wit, and substance. Students must help hold teachers accountable by not simply doing things the way they have always been done, but respectfully challenging the status quo. Textbooks are a waste of money. With so many students burdening themselves with six-figure student loan debt, wouldn’t the cost of these textbooks be better utilized on other expenses, like beer kegs and pizza?