>>22056
Not many history majors ever make it to professorship and instead take their degrees into international studies, law school, or a teaching degree. If he believes history at university - at least by Sophomore year - is just memorization of dates and names on the path to tenure, then warn him about the realities of the current market for history majors.
There are already many history majors and minors who go into international relations who do have a grasp of their region of study's history. Solutions aren't so easy to come by to problems, and many times just having a grasp of history is not nearly enough to navigate equally if not more important aspects of international politics like personal connections, economics, sociology, or media.
Revamping current education is an equally imposing beast that he'll realistically have very little influence over unless he enters politics and devotes himself to a path in state and federal education policy.
Lots of us here are interested in making our own /his/ vidya of course, but even for a hobby game development requires completely different discipline in programming and digital art that he'd have very little time for with both a history major and any of the above dreams he's mentioned.
If he's trying to be an activist, then he wouldn't be going very deep into history at uni level and should instead focus on getting into a college and a major that will help in networking and politics/media. Uni level history is more about research and interpretation, very passive actions in general but well suited to a field like law or sometimes consulting. It sounds to me like he wants to be a History minor, and major in something else.