[VIRAL] The Story of That Teacher Who Taught Her Kids to Hate
It all started with an assassination. Watch and listen to what Jane Elliot has to say about teaching children and adults a thing or two about racism. Perhaps Malaysians can relate to this?
By subodhjain — 27 Jun 2013, 11:55 AM — Updated over 11 years ago
What Jane Elliot had to say to a Malaysian
A Malaysian had the chance to hear from Jane Elliott directly and then also replicate what Jane did about 40 years ago, in a M'sian setting.
When Jane's story was aired on national TV, she received threatening calls from her town. Her parent's coffee shop was boycotted and her kids were beaten and spit-on in public.
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Who Jane Elliot is and why she wanted this experiment to happen
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Jane Elliott's bold experiment to teach Iowa third graders about racial prejudice divided towns people and thrusted her onto the national stage. Decades later, Jane Elliott's students say the ordeal changed them for good.
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Every person of color in this country knows more about racism than Ill ever know, because they have to live with it every day," Jane Elliott says.
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Jane Elliott uses maps as a tool to make a point about racism. She retired from teaching 20 years ago and lectures a few times a month, primarily at colleges or companies in need of diversity training
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A 1970 photo shows Jane Elliott's class in the midst of the "Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes" exercise. The blue-eyed children toward the back of the line are wearing collars.
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Jane Elliott created her "Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes" exercise for her Iowa third-grade pupils in 1968. For an entire day, she conducted her class as if the brown-eyed children were superior to those with blue eyes, to help the students learn the concept of racism.
Image via latimes.comIn response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. over thirty years ago, Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling, Blue eyes-Brown eyes exercise.
She turned on her television to find out about the assassination. She remembers a (white) reporter, with the microphone pointed toward a local black leader asking "When our leader (John F. Kennedy) was killed several years ago, his widow held us together. Who's going to control your people?"
Because most of Elliott's 8-year-old students were, like her, born and raised in a small town in Iowa, and were not exposed to black people outside of television, she felt that simply talking about racism would not allow her all-white class to fully comprehend racism's meaning and effects
Jane Elliott is a recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education. She has been a guest lecturer at numerous colleges and universities.
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