The Ignorance of humanity seems to always boil down to us versus them. “ Prejudice and discrimination often are root causes of human conflict, which explains how strangers come to hate one another to the extreme of causing others harm. Prejudice and discrimination affect everyone (Rice University Openstax p 433). Prejudice and discrimination give rise to other, more in-depth, types of hatred: ageism, sexism, racism, etc. Retired Educator, Jane Elliott, began an experiment the day after Martin Luther King’s death in 1968, with the intention of teaching her third grade class about racism (Bloom 2005). The jest of her experiment was to separate the group of children into two groups- brown eyes and blues eyes, and through that experiment she showed an, all white
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The experiment is a unique way to get the point across; The impression to last a lifetime. There is much controversy to ethics and “disturbing” way it is conducted. Elliott drives the point home, even after the point has been made because she feels it is a necessity (00:29:40-00:29:51). While, with good intentions, the parents of the children she taught could certainly be upset. However, the lesson taught lasted a lifetime according to one of her former children (Bloom 2005). There is nothing which shows Elliott conducting her experiment on adults (older than standard college students). Adults would be a much harder group to deal with; they have their minds fixed and are not easily changed, whereas young adults and children are still relatively opened mined and impressionable. The percentage of adults in which the experiment would positively affect would be lower than the previous experiments. The adults nor the young adults could handle the two-day experiment as the children did. If Elliott were to continue in the experiment longer than the two days, the children (with blue eyes) would have suffered from self-esteem issues, failing grades, depression, anger, and eventually hatred for the
The experiment is a unique way to get the point across; The impression to last a lifetime. There is much controversy to ethics and “disturbing” way it is conducted. Elliott drives the point home, even after the point has been made because she feels it is a necessity (00:29:40-00:29:51). While, with good intentions, the parents of the children she taught could certainly be upset. However, the lesson taught lasted a lifetime according to one of her former children (Bloom 2005). There is nothing which shows Elliott conducting her experiment on adults (older than standard college students). Adults would be a much harder group to deal with; they have their minds fixed and are not easily changed, whereas young adults and children are still relatively opened mined and impressionable. The percentage of adults in which the experiment would positively affect would be lower than the previous experiments. The adults nor the young adults could handle the two-day experiment as the children did. If Elliott were to continue in the experiment longer than the two days, the children (with blue eyes) would have suffered from self-esteem issues, failing grades, depression, anger, and eventually hatred for the