Posted by danc | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on September 12, 2013
This movie was about an amazing teaching experience that still resonates today.
We watched an amazing documentary about a social experiment conducted by Ron Jones in Paulo Alto in 1967 with his class to show just how easy it is to get caught up in a movement.
We can all learn so many lessons from this. Not just how easy it was for the dictatorship to develop but around how important it is to stick up for what we believe.
The Student Holocaust Education Movement (SHEM) presents:
Could it Happen Here? “The Wave” as told by teacher Ron Jones.
The event featured “Lesson Plan,” a film documenting the story of the Third Wave accompanied by an address from Ron Jones, the teacher who proved that even democratic societies are not immune to the appeal of fascism.
Ron Jones is an American writer, and teacher in Palo Alto, California, and San Francisco, California. He started The Third Wave in his high school world history classroom. This was the inspiration for “The Wave,” a famous book by Todd Strasser, and the movie based on the book.
