A modern approach to teaching classical mechanics: A review of Modern classical mechanics by T. M. Helliwell and V. V. Sahakian, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 704 pp., £56.00, (hardback), ISBN 978-1-10-883497-1. Scope: textbook, reference. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, teacher, scientist, engineers. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)