‘Why do we have to learn this?’ A physics educator’s response to every teacher’s least favourite question

In his years as a physics teacher, students often asked Mark Whalley why they had to learn the subject when most of them would never directly use it in their careers. Having never been satisfied with the answers he gave, he here sets out the case for learning physics, even for students who don’t pursue the subject further

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