> Look at the, pretty obvious, natural human child-mode of learning: playing games.

> Just not escapist nonsense games. Games that model relevant aspects of reality in an engaging way. Where you can fail without real-life consequences and learn from it while enjoying yourself.

In a lot of ways, that’s math contests and games like Around The World.

And that’s exactly the type of thing modern educational philosophies have eliminated.

For some reason it’s perfectly fine to have little Johnny show that’s he can run a race faster than the next kid, but he can’t show that he can solve math problems faster.