While Austrian economists criticize the neoclassicals for their models' use of untrue assumptions, critics have turned the same criticism against the Austrians for their use of the evenly rotating economy.
Per Bylund has written a book on economics that is understandable to the layperson as well as presents economics the way it should be done: a science grounded in understanding human action.
Learning economics is fundamentally about gaining economic literacy so we can better understand the world we are part of. The real world, not the invented world we find in formalized models.
As the US political landscape shifts rapidly and college economics departments become increasingly hostile, the way we teach free-market economics will change.
Mainstream academic economists believe that we advance economics by "testing" theories. Austrian economists believe economics is about understanding human action and does not have to be subjected to constant tests.