New blog post: Video Games are the Future of Education.

Via chess, Feynman, proprioception, "deep understanding", and simulations :) https://nabeelqu.co/education 

The only company I’m aware of that takes this insight seriously is @kylebrussell’s @PlaybyteInc.

Jobs founded NeXT on this thesis but he was way too early.

Going even further back, Papert’s “Mindstorms” is about this...

Oh dear, looking forward to being torn apart by HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23593872

Some really good discussion on that HN thread! I particularly liked this one.

Stories like this are way more common than people think.

People have also grown used to just how bad and traumatizing the school system is (grades, exams, homework etc).