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. The brown-eyed children had to wear collars so that they could tell each group apart from a distance. Elliot told the blue eyed children that they wer…