John Hunter and the World Peace Game

John Hunter came from a family who encouraged him to get an education so that he could get a job in life. He says that he went to a school hoping for the job but not expecting it. He says that he immediately got the job teaching gifted children. One thing that stuck out to me in his speech was what he asked the teacher when she first told him that he was hired "what do I do?" Her response was the best thing he could have asked for. She opened up his imagination of teaching to a whole new level. She said "what do you want to do?". He did not have to follow certain rules or guidelines, he could teach the class as he pleased. He discusses all types of different games that he would play with his children to help them learn. He specifically stated that he does not want his students to be reading straight out of textbooks and doing worksheets, he wanted interaction. John Hunter had a lot of times where he thought he was not teaching right and was loosing control of his classroom, but other times his students really showed him that he was doing a great job and through their actions they showed that they knew the information. He gave them lots of life lessons and used those ways to interpret the point he was trying to make.


The objects and games he has taken his own time to make really makes a difference on the kids. For him to be able to take FOURTH GRADERS and run with those kind of ideas is crazy to me. Crazy in a very good way. One thing that stuck out to me is when he talked about all his children running around the room and he says what if a principal walked in? The principal would not understand what was going on but really those students were learning more than even Hunter thought. The creativity in his work brings the students to a whole different level of learning. John Hunter is a very intelligent man who had creative strategic ways to teach kids.