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Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.

I think games are a good medium for approaching any subject, particularly difficult ones, because by their very nature, they are abstract, invite interaction and allow us to confront and question things... particularly rules that we may blindly follow.

Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'

Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices.

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

I wonder if games are maybe a terminus for ideas. Things can be books or movies or operas or plays, but once they're a game, that's where they should end. Things shouldn't start as games and be taken to movies.

Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun.

Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it's not clear that they can teach it. It's a very intuitive process. It's an art.

We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn.