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(Lesson Learned (3.2 circumstances and environment make people what they…
Credits: 1985 PBS series Frontline 9th episode
Director: William Peters
Writer: Charlie Cobb, William Peters
Award: 1986 Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational, Cultural or Historical Programming
Follow-up: Book written by William Peters in 1987 A Class Divided: Then and Now
- Premise: Iowa school third-grade teacher, Jane Elliot, doing a two-day class exercise with her students about discrimination and prejudice in 1970 later turned into a documentary and named The Eye of the Storm. Later on eleven of the then students were reunited in 1984 and re-watched the documentary
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1.4 teacher divides the class into two groups based on eye-color to make students understand how being discriminated against feels like
1.4.1 on the first day teacher told the
students that brown-eyed people are
lesser, slower, dumber,
worse listeners, miss-behaved
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1.4.2 the set rules turned the third graders into nasty, vicious, discriminating bullys
1.4.3 on the first day, the superior blue-eyed students performed better than the brown-eyed students on the phonic cards
1.4.4 on the second day, the superior brown-eyed students went faster than the blue-eyed students through the phonic cards
1.4.6 at the end of the experiment, students shared their experiences of the two day: people cannot be judged on the basis of skin color, eye color or any physical feature, feelings of empathy were developed
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3.1 discrimination and prejudice is an idea built in people's minds, creating insurmountable barriers
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2.3 participants' present-day reactions and anecdotes are presented. The students recall their feelings of shame and anger when wearing the brown identifying collars and that of elation and superiority when they shed the collars.
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4.3 other schools, government, business world
