Teaching anything when the student doesn't want to learn is a bit futile. I was taught physics at school. I am actually interested in physics now, and I am finding the historical progression, the story behind the move from an older model to a newer one to be very enlightening. I was taught this way at school but I just didn't understand it and wasn't interested enough to pay full attention. I think there is value in telling the historical story of physics, just only to interested students.