I think this is a great point about the usefulness of video games. A lot of school work is boring and presented poorly: memorize your history dates, solve thes

I think this is a great point about the usefulness of video games. A lot of school work is boring and presented poorly: memorize your history dates, solve these equations, write an essay critiquing an essay about something you don't care about. Think about what is testable in education and you'll find that is a lot of what gets taught. Do you find the economy of games fascinating? You might get one class on economics at the end of high school. Do you love building things in Minecraft and animating them with crazy redstone circuits? You'll be lucky if your high school has woodworking, metalworking or even art classes. Do you love exploring a game world? Your classes don't really have time to let you explore, please read the assigned materials. I was lucky enough to have a computer a home where I could write (terrible) console-based games and later build web sites. Originally I wanted to make games, but then I found that I actually loved servers and the ability to reach across the internet to get data from a computer thousands of miles away was even more fascinating.