As an electronics teacher, I don't think it is specifically that learning from books is difficult but that it is hard to strike the balance between theory and p

As an electronics teacher, I don't think it is specifically that learning from books is difficult but that it is hard to strike the balance between theory and practice, the high level and the low level. My approach has been to ignore a lot of detail until it is needed to understand what is happening on the macro level. For example, you don't need to understand electrons especially travelling opposite to current, which can be especially challenging, until we might discuss why some components have a higher rated power than others or why we cannot control a large motor with a small transistor, at which point we can introduce current.