>However I would not recommend the Feynman lectures (and, based on the preface, I think Feynman would agree). I've read about a 1/3 of the series and while I have to say they are some of the greatest technical writing in history, they are not the greatest pedagogical material. I do believe everyone should read at least some of the Feynman lectures, just not as a means of learning physics.

As a counterpoint, I am someone who did self-learn physics from Feynman's lectures as a teenager and I would highly recommend it to others to at least give it a try.

You have to appreciate just how much of a factor pure interest and enthusiasm for a subject is in learning it - and Feynman's lectures are just amazing for sparking that joy in physics. I discovered Feynman's lectures about two months into my first year of high school and it became my primary textbook. I just found the other texts too goddamned boring in comparison.