Nobody's saying that "explaining" is the same as "teaching". Nobody's saying that "basic understanding" is the same as "mastery".
This is just to get people started, it's not a substitute for years of hard work and study. Feynman never claimed this and I think this is missing the point entirely. Unless you have a complete model of how the system works you can't come up with suitable analogies to gently ease in new people to get started.
This is just to get people started, it's not a substitute for years of hard work and study. Feynman never claimed this and I think this is missing the point entirely. Unless you have a complete model of how the system works you can't come up with suitable analogies to gently ease in new people to get started.