Well, there's "learn" and then there's "Learn." One of my undergraduate QFT courses was taught by a nuclear physicist who wanted to spend the whole time talking about nuclear shells and mass gaps, so he crammed all the QFT in to the last half of the semester. In a blaze of glory, we ran though a bunch of linear algebra, got showed how to do Feynman diagrams and compute cross sections, and saw some vacuum solutions for the Dirac equation. After taking that class, I wouldn't say I knew QFT, but I could say I knew QFT without lying.
If you taught someone how to do derivatives in a half-semester blaze of glory like that, I bet you could combine it with the half-semester blaze of QFT glory to technically qualify as teaching a high school student QFT in half a year.
(I don't regret the professor's decision at all, by the way, I liked the nuclear stuff.)
If you taught someone how to do derivatives in a half-semester blaze of glory like that, I bet you could combine it with the half-semester blaze of QFT glory to technically qualify as teaching a high school student QFT in half a year.
(I don't regret the professor's decision at all, by the way, I liked the nuclear stuff.)