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Episode 2 One Friday in April 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King, third grade school teacher Jane Elliott changed her lesson plan, and changed the lives of her all white third graders forever. Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. Today Jane Elliott’s lesson is the cornerstone of many training classes on diversity. Do the means justify the ends? Do the lessons last? Children are impressionable, what does this mean for adults in the workplace? Does this 40 year old window into a third grade classroom still have relevance today? Co-hosts Richard Friend and Judy Seidenstein talk frankly with Jane Elliott about the lessons she’s taught and those she has learned in trying to promote social justice, eradicate racism and recreate today’s workplace. |
