You can be offended if you like. I was making the point that teaching physics is hard because children (and adults) usually prefer simple explanations or phraseology, and the job of the physics teacher is to tell them that the simple explanations of natural phenomena are not, in fact, correct. Perhaps a few percent of kids are excited by this and go on to be engineers, scientists and mathematicians; too many of the rest go on to distrust and disbelieve experts.
I get the sense that the feeling of the meeting is against me and shall leave, clutching the remains of my tattered dignity.
