Interesting. The author does have a point, to wit that a lot of the things most students would find exciting are in the "later" parts of physics in more traditi

Interesting. The author does have a point, to wit that a lot of the things most students would find exciting are in the "later" parts of physics in more traditional courses. But I am not completely convinced with this approach. My personal bugbear is not so much the teaching of physics, but the teaching of physics and mathematics as if they are two completely separate subjects. One advantage of teaching physics in the "traditional" sense, is that the kind of math that you need to properly teach the fundamentals of classical mechanics comes before the kind of mathematics you need to teach quantum mechanics.