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The point of view of teaching the subject should actually be different from
the view that a professional physicist has. While it is convenient to
specify charge as a continuous property, this point of view produces
confusion for the beginning student. Anton Lawson in a remarkable series of
papers in Jour. of Res. in Sci. Teach. (JRST) has shown that concepts which
involve "invisible" things are much more difficult for students to
understand.