(After all, being rational helps with real life, yet many students of real life miss these lessons entirely!)

I like this point. Actually it is more common in life to learn the value of being hypocritical, instead of being rational. E.g. most people act as if there was no afterlife, which is rational, but maintain that there is an afterlife, which is not. What games, or real-life situations, punish hypocrisy and not just irrationality?