No Work & More Play Make Jack A Smart Boy?

In Gee's essay Good Video Games and Good Learning, James Paul Gee enlightens the reader that students would learn more through games than we would through old fashioned textbooks. Education through gaming would be a very fresh and interesting way to learn in schools (And ironic too... Do you know how many times I've had my GameBoy taken away from me in elementary school?). I am speaking for myself, someone who has had textbooks from school stay on the shelf for a year, collecting dust and literally returning books the same way they were handed to me that I truly support Gee's idea of learning through gaming. Humans have been learning through games for thousands of years. From hide and seek to Super Mario Brothers, we have learned many of our knowledge and skills from play and simulation (if you jump on top of a turtle with wings, it will lose it's wings... Jump on it again and it will die). Take hide and seek for example: Humans have probably used our skills from hide and seek to hide from a 880 pound lion, bearing teeth and ready to kill. It's a difficult thing to try and enjoy something that is long, hard and complex. If education came to us in the form of a game, it would appeal much more to students. In conclusion, I completely support Gee's arguement to use video games as a learning tool in schools