> Many of the textbooks he was reading... were using the pedagogical technique of Lie-to-children Wrong, the textbook authors fully believe those misconception

> Many of the textbooks he was reading... were using the pedagogical technique of Lie-to-children Wrong, the textbook authors fully believe those misconceptions themselves. I discovered this sad fact during my K6 education consulting work back in the 80s. Lies-to-children are very different than author misconceptions: they must be carefully constructed so that they don't install permanent major misconceptions in student's minds. For example, the idea that atoms are like tiny solar systems is a "Lie" which simply explains atomic structure in classical terms, and which turns out to be relatively harmless. It doesn't form any enormous learning barrier which entirely derails our later ability to understand orbitals and quantum chem. Good articles on the author-misconception topic: R. Feynman's "Judging books by their covers" and S J Gould's "The case of the creeping fox terrier clone"