There's a degree that you can gamify learning. That's really helpful.
Mostly, you want to make learning not a chore.
If people are drawn to learning like they're drawn to video games, then that would really help.
The more you can gamify the process of learning, the better. You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day, so if you make it interactive and engaging then you can make education far more compelling and far easier to do.[174]
When teaching a course, you have to explain to kids why it's important. Then you want to teach the problem instead of teaching the tools. If you said, “Here's a car engine. We're going to try to understand how this car engine works, and we're going to take it apart. So what do we need to do to take it apart? Well, we need a wrench, some screwdrivers, a hoist and a pulley. We're going to take it apart and we're going to see how it all works.” That's engaging and along the way you learn about wrenches and screwdrivers and all the tools that are needed.
But the way teaching more typically works is we're going to teach you a course on screwdrivers. And a course on wrenches. And you're like, “Why do I have to take a course on wrenches?” It's not obvious. If you take a course on calculus without learning what calculus is used for, then you’ll forget it.[174]