Response to “Are Most People Too Dumb for Physics?”

I would like to begin by expressing my apprecia-tion to TPT Editor Karl Mamola for the extra attention he paid to my article, which turned out, unexpectedly for me, to generate considerable controversy, and also to authors Lasry, Finkelstein, and Mazur (LFM) for their thoughtful response. First let me mention several points where I believe LFM have mischaracterized my words: (1) By orga-nizing a physics course into “stories, ” I do not mean “historical narratives, ” but rather logical narratives, in which students see the connections among observa-tions, experiments, mathematical analyses, and general theories. We all think that our physics course is totally organized and connected, but students do not, and we need to package it more clearly for them. (2) I did not say that concepts are “too easy. ” I do believe a course in conceptual physics, with little quantitative thinking