> it's incompatible with the "learn while playing" concept.
That's definitely not always true.
Even boring things can be turned into a game. Different games are fun to different people.
> schools in the US tend to sideline [memorization]
US education incentives are far more closely aligned with teaching for standardized test than "teaching how to think", whatever their claimed rhetoric. It's been that way since even before W and the NCLB Act, which made things much worse.
That's definitely not always true.
Even boring things can be turned into a game. Different games are fun to different people.
> schools in the US tend to sideline [memorization]
US education incentives are far more closely aligned with teaching for standardized test than "teaching how to think", whatever their claimed rhetoric. It's been that way since even before W and the NCLB Act, which made things much worse.