A Class Divided

In the video "A Class Divided", Jane Elliot a teacher from Riceville, Iowa engages her third grade class into a brown eyed/blue eyed experiment. The experiment is to help the children to understand about prejudice and discrimination. The same experiment was also used a couple of years later with adults. In the brown eyed/blue eyed experiment Jane Elliot told her third graders with blue eyes that they were better than the brown-eyed children. …showed first 75 words of 772 total…

…showed last 75 words of 772 total…method to show people how it feels to be discriminated. I have had been faced with prejudice in my life a couple of times but none that have greatly affected me. I know how it is to be discriminated against, especially being a minority, people of another race might feel as if they are better than you but if they were in someone else's shoes they just might not think the same way ever again.