School Is A Poorly Designed Game

It seems like play should be an easy sell—people say they love play—but actually, play gets a bad rap.

What’s the first game that you play as a child? It’s stay alive.

Art and abstract skills like leadership and high social and emotional abilities are nice to have but are difficult or impossible to measure.

There are actually a number of famous dyslexics. And it is still surprising to me that we call this a disability

That’s the big thing with schools, we’re blowing the punchline. We’re telling children, this is what you’re learning so learn it this way, instead of letting them discover it and find it on their own.

Let’s make school less like Candy Land and more like Clue and Dungeons and Dragons.

If school were a game, it would be a poorly designed game.