Posted on 09/02/2009 10:34:38 PM PDT by Cindy
Note: Videos and photos included.
SNIPPET: "In 1967, at the Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, World History teacher Ron Jones was asked about the Holocaust by a student. "Could it happen here?".
According to the press release accompanying the latest retelling of the events that followed, "Jones came up with an unusual answer. He decided to have a two week experiment in dictatorship. His idea was to explain fascism to his class through a game, nothing more. He never intended what resulted, where his class would be turned into a Fascist environment. Where students gave up their freedom for the prospect of being superior to their neighbors.
Monday morning he straightened the classroom, dimmed the lights and played Wagnerian music. The word "discipline" was written on the blackboard. He then had the students sit up straight in their chairs with hands placed flat across the small of their backs. In this setting, he devoted the remainder of the class to the topic of discipline.
By the second day, Jones developed a special greeting, a wave. It became known as the Third Wave, and if students saw each other outside class, they were to use it. In his lectures, Jones went from "discipline," to "strength through community," and then to "strength through action."
By midweek, his "experiment" expanded to sixty students, and by the week's end, more than two hundred were participating. Other teachers and the school's principal stood by and watched.
The first sign of concern came when some students had taken it uponthemselves to report others who did not conform. After just four days, things got out of hand. Jones feared for the safety of a few students who refused to participate. To his dismay and alarm, the experiment was so blindly embraced by the students, that he cut the project short. "Initially I just wanted to show my students how powerful the pressure to belong can be, but the exercise got out of control. A momentum began to build that I couldn't slow, or even deter. I became frightened by the day-to-day happenings in class, and was forced to call it off," recalls Jones.
Overnight, Jones became the subject of national controversy, sparking discussion on the appropriateness of exposing young adults to life's realities. To some, he was an innovative hero and teacher; to others he was a Communist. Many people were shocked and embarrassed that the same mentality which led to the Holocaust could develop so quickly, in 1967, in a pristine all-American setting, and an academic town no less, home to the well-known Stanford University."
Read more at the web site http://www.thewave.tk
LOL.
However, have you gotten your chip implant ID yet?
The line forms to the LEFT.
As my boss said . . . the boss still with the world’s best private collection of PRE-HITLER German pamphlets, posters, leaflets etc . . .
“It was the flakiest groups who FIRST AND MOST ACCURATELY IDENTIFIED WHO HITLER WAS, WHAT HE WOULD BECOME AND WHAT HE WOULD DO.”
I guess FREEPERS prefer to NOT BE THAT CONCERNED about the burgeoning current DESTROYER-IN-CHIEF and his gestapo minions.
Sigh.
And my boss said that way back in 1966.
That’s just disturbing.
Just as long as its for the children and FREE.
Sigh . . .
SHRILLERY HAS A LOT FOR THE CHILDREN . . .
INFANTICIDE,
WAR,
EUTHENASIA WHENEVER POSSIBLE,
ETC. ETC. ETC.
Scary stuff.
Ping.
High School students think they are SO individual, and yet, they want SO badly to BELONG.
That’s why they are so vulnerable to this kind of “groupthink”.
These experiments are as dangerous as they are revealing.
thanks for ping Joya.. and for thread Cindy
Scary stuff indeed!
Adding to post no. 6 (plus recap):
Recap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVRXXbU-z7U
Cults: The Wave - Part 1
Video Description - Quote:
May 13, 2007
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1981 - Based on the real experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, CA in April 1967, whose teacher wanted to explain the rise of the Nazi party to his students.
To buy The Wave on DVD, go to http://www.amazon.com/The-Wave-by-Ale...
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Wave-by-Alexander-Grasshoff/dp/B00132XZNI
Video:
The Wave by Alexander Grasshoff
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ADDITIONAL LINK-VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXi71XBdh1o
Cults: The Wave - Part 2
Video Description - Quote:
XENUTV May 13, 2007 1981 - Based on the real experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, CA in April 1967, whose teacher wanted to explain the rise of the Nazi party to his students.
To buy a copy of The Wave for classroom use, go to http://tinyurl.com/2xbhrt
Category:
News & Politics
Yes it is.
More disturbing is that history can and does tend to repeat itself.
“...vulnerable...”
Yep and that’s the key word.
A mind full of mush, or to be more charitable, a mind that is still maturing is vulnerable and easy to manipulate.
And the media and video games don’t help matters.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
This is the experiment to forced board oversight in psychology experimentation.
ON THE INTERNET:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2537672/posts?page=6#6
http://teapartyatperrysburg.blogspot.com/2010/06/now-theyre-organizing-teenagers.html
“FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010
Now they’re ‘organizing’ teenagers”
ADDING to post no. 9... another classroom video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAYlQhhocMw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
“Mr. B and his Kid’s Obama Propaganda Song”
SNIPPET - quote: “Produced in 2008.”
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“Common core sparks war over words”
By Lyndsey Layton, Published: December 2, 2012
SNIPPET: “Among the suggested nonfiction pieces for high school juniors and seniors are Alexis de Tocquevilles Democracy in America, FedViews, by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2009) and Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management, published by the General Services Administration.”
SNIPPET: “Jamie Highfill is mourning the six weeks worth of poetry she removed from her eighth-grade English class at Woodland Junior High School in Fayetteville, Ark. She also dropped some short stories and a favorite unit on the legends of King Arthur to make room for essays by Malcolm Gladwell and a chapter from The Tipping Point, Gladwells book about social behavior.”
www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/2013/Evaluating-Obesity-Prevention-Efforts/EPOP_rb.pdf
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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/govt-advisory-group-recommends-community-level-obesity-watch
“Gov’t Advisory Group Recommends Community-Level Obesity Watch”
August 6, 2013 - 12:26 PM
By Susan Jones
(CNSNews.com) -
SNIPPET: “The federally funded Institute of Medicine (IOM) has just released a report listing 83 ways to “assess the progress made in every community”—and at the national level—in the fight against obesity.”
SNIPPET: “It was the IOM that controversially recommended what preventive health services — including birth control, sterilization and abortifacients — should be covered without charge under Obamacare.
“Let’s Move!” on steroids
The IOM’s 83 “indicators for measuring progress” in obesity-prevention include the following, in no particular order. This is only a partial list.”
SNIPPET: “According to IOM, assessment means looking at the number and distribution of obese people within a community and at efforts to eliminate the problem.
Surveillance is the continuous assessment of progress over time.
Monitoring means tracking the implementation of various anti-obesity interventions;
And summative evaluation seeks to detect changes associated with particular interventions.”
H/T:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3054153/posts
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/video-stunner-boy-prays-to-obama/
http://www.caintv.com/video-move-over-golden-calf-ch
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Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=-YI4813_v-E
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