Wednesday, January 7, 2009

A Class Divided


Go to this site & you can watch the Frontline show about an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination.  Jane Elliott divided her class into blue-eyed & brown-eyed groups and told the blue-eyed group they were better people. The next day she told them she'd lied and the brown-eyed group were better than blue-eyed group. 

The last two chapters show the same lesson being taught to a group of adults. It's pretty interesting to watch. 

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