+1000 For mentioning Feynman. The pure and humble genius of this man, called "The Great Teacher", is in my view only rivaled by Professor Einstein himself.

When I want to introduce someone to Feynman, I often show them this video, "Why?".

The clip is a 7 minute outtake of an interview Feynman gave in his later years which focuses on what happens when the interviewer asks the question "Why do magnets work?". To answer this, Feynman meta-explains how explanations can be given in the first place, setting up the reason why the magnet so hard to directly answer. In this, he tells me more than I heard in my 5 years of studying physics.

(In short, about the magnet question: we are used to explaining/describing things by analogy to other, known, things. But you can't say "magnets attract when separated in the same way that rubber bands try to constrict if you pull them apart" because that's cheating, since the reason rubber bands act like that is because of the magnetic action of their atoms. So how can I answer a "Why?" when there is no other shared experience we have that I can analogize it to?)

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PS: If anyone reading is interested in electricity, and perhaps is like me — very disappointed in the teaching of it, disappointed because it seems like magic to me, but is treated like "math" to the professors, I HIGHLY recommend reading a few pages of Feynmans work (which covers all of known physics) that deals specifically with Electricity: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_01.html