[baroomba]

Same, intuitive way I think of it since learning the school and pop-culture explanations are basically wrong—and for reasons that are unclear to me, because why make up some unintuitive BS when the intuitive and obvious explanation is closer to correct.

Stick hand out window, tilt hand, feel wind push hand up. Wind hits bottom of hand, pushes it up. That's the main thing, and everyone already gets that if they've ever, like, experienced wind. Play with it a little and you can feel your hand respond a bit differently based on the kind of "shadow" it's casting in the wind. That's the rest of it, more or less. There, airplanes explained, certainly way better and closer to correct than "well you see the top of the wing is longer than the bottom, so Bernoulli's principle is the reason airplanes can fly..."