I love the line that "Alex would be better off just accepting my teachings without resistance." ... yup, having false information is good fer ye.
Reminds me of the time my 8-year old son had to correct his feather-brain teacher about the fact that 1 is not actually a prime number. After my wife had to call her on it, she simply told the class that 1 is a "special prime" (a classification that no mathematician has seen fit to introduce in the last thousand years), and then didn't mention prime numbers (much less math) for the rest of the year.