Elliott sent the brown-eyed children to lunch first and gave them a longer recess. The brown-eyed children could drink from the water fountain, but the blue-eyed children had to use paper cups. The change was instant, Elliott said. The children with brown eyes were suddenly more confident — and condescending
Explanation:
She wanted to show her pupils what discrimination feels like, and what it can do to people. Elliott divided her class by eye color — those with blue eyes and those with brown. On the first day, the blue-eyed children were told they were smarter, nicer, neater, and better than those with brown eyes.
The exercise: Brown eyes, blue eyes. ... She had the blue-eyed children put on green construction paper armbands. And then she told the children that the brown-eyed students were smarter. Elliott came up with an explanation: Intelligence, she told the children, was determined by melanin
No don’t give them credit because you can change things on Wikipedia so it’s not really real facts and you shouldn’t sue Wikipedia anyway because it’s kinda like a scam it’s not always real facts
