Every year at TED there is a one or two TED talks that captivates me, and this is one of them. This is the story of John Hunter using a complex board game, called 'World Peace Game', to teach his class of 4th grader the problems faced in the world today, and giving them a chance to solve them. It started off as a plywood board game, and has grown to a multi-layer/multi-player complex game with thousands of pieces. Through this game, the school kids learn about the complexity of the world like climate change, politics and economics.
John Hunter has used this game in his classroom for years, and although the problems he throws at the kids are the same, they have the freedom to make their own decisions. Knowing that their decisions are going to affect the world, children becomes surprisingly wise and delivers every time. We should let kids run the world, there will be less 'politics', less 'BS' and more compassion.
