I will definitely play games with my kids, just have to figure out which.

minecraft helped me learn my base 8s.

@ARockRaider Best math ever.

well more like base 2s or what ever.

Five stacks burns 4 coal blocks.

This website improved my mental arithmetics high score from around 20 to around 50 in the span of less than two months. Bet schools will want to use that, right? ... right?
https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/

but I knew a stack was 64, a half of that was 32, and so on.

oh, it's a flash card program!

that's amazing!

256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1

Playing Starcraft online taught me English.

Cause I wanted to communicate with French people.

Not Korean?

I learned more English in the span of half a year than in four years of school.

I learned how to spell "electrons" form a game called "stratosphere"
was part of a cheat code.

Wait, you couldn't spell electrons right? :>

Best skill gamers get, patience

did i just miss spell it?

lol 😄

No ironically you didn't misspell 'electrons', but 'from'

dangit.

TBH, English spelling is retarded, so you are forgiven

i'm not a good speller.

I misspelled a ton of words even though I was the bookworm in my class

that it is, just wish there was a better option because spoken english is the best!

yah, people seem to think reading and writeing are related, not as much as one would think they are.

spoken is also retarded because there are so many of them and the standard variety proves useless in many a context

I like how overly self-conscious everyone is now over their spelling

I try to be anyway unless someone is being a jerk about it.

But yeah, seriously. Look at this.
https://www.urbo.com/content/school-dazed-why-you-forgot-everything-you-learned-in-school/

- We forget what we don't research ourselves.
- We forget what we don't use.
So why don't we scratch years off public school?

Why do we make children repeat classes?

Why do we grade classes that don't make sense to be graded?

That's another thing, teachers just shuffling bad students through to graduation to avoid dealing with them

Yeah, although I'd argue that's a good thing.

Those teachers see through the shit system.

And it's not only that

The way teachers teach is also really bad, because children have different approaches, or different interests at different times.

And the standardized teaching methods ignore all that, leaving many children with great potential behind.

one thing I always assumed about school is the social enviroment that is school doesn't really apply anywhere else.

Yeah, not anymore.