&quot;We use &quot;lies to children&quot; to avoid complicated explanations, but then we&#x27;re never up-front with older high-school students about the misconceptions they probably acquired in grades K-6.&quot;<p>This pretty sums most of the &quot;science&quot; textbooks my daughter used.
I self-learned about electricity concepts from a book using closed hydraulic system analogy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hydraulic_analogy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hydraulic_analogy</a>)<p>I&#x27;m an EE now :-)