We learned what it felt like to create a disciplined social environment. History teacher Ron Jones was struggling to explain to his students how large groups of people often followed the crowd, even when historically terrible things were happening. No psychological effects were reported, and his students even respected and revered him yet more for his unusual lessonhence the documentary was made by two former classmates. Some former students explain that their parents at the time didnt talk about emotions, and taught their children to respect the government and authorities, but that the Third Wave Experiment gave them a different point of view on blindly following orders and authoritiesthey appreciated the fact that they had been given the opportunity to see through their naivety. The Third Wave Is a nationwide program to find students who are willing to fight for political change in this country. To accentuate this, I requested answers to be given in three words or less. You have been used. Ordinary people will rationalise rather than be rational when they are in a threatening or difficult situation, in order to excuse themselves for being part of something that they fundamentally disagree with. Thanks, Eugene The trials. Answers *tarted to stretch out as students usually hesitant to speak found support for their effort. Oh, we talked and studied our actions intently. Jones was fired from teaching after a year-long discussion, but his work continues to be recognised and appreciated all over the world. I glanced over my shoulder. Some swirled back to momentarily hold Robert and me. What was he lying about, in your view? Evil is not banal, and it cannot be found everywhere, but it is made banal by those who refuse to admit that they have been the perpetrators and performers of evil. Oral history of Ernest DeMaio, from his early radicalizing experience of the First, The autobiography of Fred W. Thompson - socialist, Wobbly, organizer, soapboxer, editor, class-war prisoner, educator, historian, and publisher, A collection of essays written by Dwight Macdonald, most of which appeared in his. Played guitar and enjoyed drama. in fact I instructed the class in a sitting posture. And I daily argued to myself on the benefits of the learning experience. The entire collection however looked like one force as they sat in perfect attention. Jones told his students of the true nature of the movement as an experiment in fascism, and presented to them a short film discussing the actions of Nazi Germany.[9]. We get or take an ascribed role and then bend our life to fit the image. However, Ron tried to think that he could transfer that type of instruction to a mixed class of girls and boys who were not prepared for his style of instruction. They even seemed to be asking better questions and treating each other with more compassion. The project was adapted into an American film, The Wave, in 1981, and a critically acclaimed German film, Die Welle, in 2008. New people were speaking. He told me about his friends that had been killed in Germany. The Third Wave disaster. Over the course of five days (or nine, according to student Sherry Toulsey), Jones, a member of the SDS,[6] Cubberley United Student Movement sponsor[7] and Black Panthers supporter[8] conducted a series of exercises in his classroom emphasizing discipline and community, intended to model certain characteristics of the Nazi movement. I feel entirely compelled to say that any one that takes this as an offensive measure is possibly hiding something them self. Everything rests with you and your willingness to take a stand.". There was much more to see and try to understand. The world misinterpreted her idea of the banality of evil; many believed that the phrase meant that within each of us there is evil and that the Nazi criminals were ordinary people simply following orders. In 1967, teacher Ron Jones conducted a social experiment with unexpected results. He smiled (I don't think I had ever seen him smile) and announced, "Mr. Jones I'm your bodyguard. The first congress of the Red Trade Union International at Moscow, 1921. May 14, 2022 Lauren Coontz. The room stayed dark as the final footage of film flapped against the projector. The air in the room seemed to be drying up. He ended his pedagogical experiment abruptly with humiliation of his students via his lecturing. Third Wave Experiment. Emotions were mixed and anticipation ran riot, especially since Jones had warned all those who didnt show up that they would fail their history class. The students chanted their slogan in anticipation. It was rewarding to see their satisfaction and excitement to do more. The third wave, 1967: an account - Ron Jones. "Mr. Jones do you remember the Third Wave?" The rewards they were accustomed to winning just didn't exist in the experiment. I explained how at noon on Friday a national candidate for president would announce the formation of a Third Wave Youth Program. Composite by Coffee or Die . (From around 2010) 1976 Ron Jones First Short Story "The Third Wave". That you were better than those outside this room. Students must be sitting in class at the attention position before the late bell; all students Must carry pencils and paper for note taking; when asking or answering questions a student must stand at the side of their desk; the first word given in answering or asking a question is "Mr. It caused a lot of problems at the school because students were not prepared properly to understand what was being taught. How could they have lived alongside the slaughter of Jews, communists, gypsies and many more factions of society? they asked. I agree with you that Ron's pedagogical experiment was disastrous and that he did not make enough pedagogical preparation for his simulation of the Nazi totalitarianism with his students. The power of the will. Returning once again to the analyses made by Haslam, we can formulise different conclusions to the Third Wave Experiment which itself relates closely to other experiments and studies being made in the post-war years. He then led them in shouting chants of "Strength through Discipline! it went something like this. In speed drills the class learned to move from standing position to attention sitting in fifteen seconds. [9] Jones created a salute involving a cupped hand reaching across the chest toward the opposite shoulder,[9] resembling a Hitler salute. Late Wednesday afternoon I found Robert following me and asked what in the world was he doing. Heinlein said of humankind in 1953, man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalising animal. That's how it all started. Things were already getting out of control. ", "You thought that you were the elect. To be number one. Strength through action The pleasure of doing something right and being rewarded. Moving toward the door and the world outside. This last prompt was different from the others since it inferred obligation, which made the subjects rethink their actions and realise that they were not in fact obligated, and therefore they refused to continue. It's easier being a teacher. To accepting the Third Wave as a way of life. There is no such thing as a national youth movement called the Third Wave. I lectured about the beauty of discipline. If we can change the way that school is run, we can change the way that factories, stores, universities and all the other institutions are run. This kind of lie has been criticised for being inherently unethical but is, in fact, the only way in which experimenters can ensure that their subjects are acting in an authentic way. It just whined on. 1967 Original "Third Wave" Class, Palo Alto, California. By the end of the third day I was exhausted. Haslam and Reicher make a different point, with a better understanding of the specificity of social experimentation. What's his name? Adolf Eichmann, however, was no ordinary man. Throughout the next few days students in the class would exchange this greeting. I'm afraid something will happen to you. Instead of simply summarising Haslams theory, however, its necessary to study his newer formulation of old conclusions to analyse a different, lesser-known social experiment called The Third Wave Experiment. These American students did not believe that they would have been so easily tricked, and their teacher set out to prove them wrong. Many students outside the class asked if they could join. All day long he opened and closed doors for me. Students were expected to sit at attention before the second bell, had to stand up to ask or answer questions and had to do so in three words or fewer, and were required to preface each remark with "Mr. Jones". I walked up and down the aisles of seated students pointing out small flaws, making improvements. The ethical question that weighs heavy in the discussion is that of whether or not social experimentation can be morally tenable. Where is it? In the next few minutes and perhaps years, you will have an opportunity to answer this question. He would talk to the parents and calm their concern. He was surprised when around twenty of the students made such reports. He decided to create a fictional social movement as a demonstration of the appeal of fascism. "The first few days, the Third Wave was a game. Schoolteacher Ron Jones's personal account of his experiment which created a proto-fascist movement amongst his high school pupils in Palo Alto, California, which in 2008 was subject of the award-winning film The Wave. Any% nazi speedrun. Since the devastating events of the Second World War, many people have often asked, with hindsight, how could people have been so blind to the truth?. The Third Wave was an experimental social movement created by California high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could have accepted the actions of the Nazi regime during the rise of the Third Reich and the Second World War.[1][2][3][4][5]. It would not be possible to analyse such experiments without comparing them alongside one another since it takes a comparative study to come up with trustworthy explanations in the social sciences. [9], The students all arrived at 11:50 a.m. Jones had convinced a number of his friends to pose as reporters, and asked the students to demonstrate what they had learned in the minutes before the televised address would supposedly begin. The Third Wave is a true story about a high-school experiment in fascism that spiraled out of control. On the contrary, he had not simply followed orders blindly, he had actually planned his actions in great detailhe was an author of the Holocaust. If Ron Jones was in fact terminated from the school, it is clearly because humanity is afraid to let go and see what is possible. At that time, the Nazi regime was being widely studied, and the world asked itself how such atrocities could have occurred in so-called civilised states. A hushed silence shrouded the room. How far would you have gone? On Friday, the final day of the exercise, I spent the early morning preparing the auditorium for the rally. As abruptly as it started the film froze to a halt on a single written frame. Students from across the school joined in. Following minutes of progressive drill assignments the class could move from standing positions outside the room to attention sitting positions at their desks without making a sound. Strength through community Control. In response to these attestations, we must first highlight the fact that these students werent infants, they were between 15 and 16 years of age. On the contrary, they analysed the very specifics of the experiment to come up with a more thorough hypothesis. At least he was equal to everyone. Or he is exaggerating, or what? Based on his account, he did not question his students' experiences and reflections by careful listening to them and providing them with sensitive guidance. Being a follower. Must be a former student. A belief that demands a strong leader and discipline to preserve social order. Where is their curiosity or resistance to this marshal behavior. He handed in elaborate weekly reports copied word for word from the reference books in the library. The act of apology. Ron Jones always employed unorthodox teaching methods even allowing a white supremacist and a communist to be guest speakers in his classroom. We practiced this new attention position over and over. A new member had only to be recommended by an existing member and issued a card by me. Not knowing when and if you'd ever see each other again. Within days, they had a motto, flag, salute, and began to view themselves as an exclusive, elite group. This would be a rally for Third Wave Members only. The Third Wave. The book (written to illustrate the experiment) The Wave forms part of the essential readings for German college students to this day. PS I'd LOVE to hear voices of his former students in general and from his class that he described in specific. How could the German populace claim ignorance of the slaughter of the Jewish people. In ghostly images the history of the Third Reich paraded into the room. . 509-10) told his students in the . Ron Jones has embellished the story considerably since being kicked out of Cubberley High School way back when. To experience the power of discipline, I invited, no I commanded the class to exercise and use a new seating posture; I described how proper sitting posture assists mandatory concentration and strengthens the will. But where were you heading? If I remember the question. Most of my fear emanated from the incidence of "tattletaling". By the end of the day over two hundred students were admitted into the order. Wednesday evening someone had broken into the room and ransacked the place. We would repeat the mottos in a rotating chorus. It was for class members only. Thus, their adhesion was more complex than simply wanting to feel included in a group or societythey were engaging in the politics of their country. And profound revelation. Jones." I was in pretty bad shape myself. "Everyone turned in shock. Faced with this experiment exploding in one hundred directions, I decided to try an old basketball strategy. We were studying Nazi Germany and in the middle of a lecture I was interrupted by the question. [9] Jones started a movement called "The Third Wave" and told his students that the movement aimed to eliminate democracy. He seemed delighted and told me not to worry. Strength through pride Well at last it can be talked about. I graduated in 1967 and lost contact with Ron, But my mother worked at the school and kept me up to date as to what was going on with him. With that, I gave the salute followed automatically by two hundred arms stabbing a reply. There were the athletes, the social prominents, the student leaders, the loners, the group of kids that always left school early, the bikers, the pseudo hip, a few representatives of the school's dadaist click, and some of the students that hung out at the laundromat. Our class came up with the motto the "the third wave" and the salute, but it stayed in our class and was not carried out into the school. Was all my belief in Carl Rogers to shrivel and die? In the martial atmosphere of the class they seemed stunned and pensive. They were doing something together. We know the fear of being left out. It felt hard to breathe and even harder to talk. The subjects were told that they were taking part in a rare experiment studying education. "This is the final lesson to be experienced. I confessed my feeling of sickness and remorse. Others simply sunk into the activity and took self assigned roles. Ron Joness students didnt know they were taking part in an attempt to show how they too could fall into step when a tyrannical authority was present. Their faces held looks of disbelief. The trouble with the situation and role I had created was that I didn't have time to think where it was leading. In concluding this conversation I envisioned similar conversations throughout history in which the clergy accepted and apologized for untenable conditions. "It's over." I decided to push the tolerance of the class for regimented action. Class expanded from its initial 30 students to a total of 43. "The Third Wave presents inside look at Fascism". "Listen closely, I have something important to tell you." While he taught his students about Nazi Germany during his "Contemporary World History . Turned our head as friends and neighbors were cursed and then persecuted. While Jones taught his students about Nazi Germany during his senior level Contemporary World History class, Jones found it difficult to explain how the German people could have accepted the actions of the Nazis. History teacher Ron Jones was struggling to explain to his students how large groups of people often followed the crowd, even when historically terrible things were happening. Don't you feel better.". But no. The autobiography of Albert Parsons, Haymarket martyr, written from prison. Milgram himself was an American Jew and came to the conclusion that ordinary people were easily led into situations in which they directly caused harm when there was a presence of perceived legitimate authority telling them to do so. Each time the response was louder. Like the Germans, you will have trouble admitting to yourself that you come this far. These three young women were by far the most intelligent students in the class. I would dismiss the class allowing them to leave their desks and then call them abruptly back to an attention sitting position. As I spent more time playing the role I had less time to remember its rational origins and purpose. Kids were instructed in posture, began each remark with Mr. and saluted. I now can appreciate why the astronomer turns relentlessly to the telescope. The Third Wave experiment once again indicates that the normal group processes that make social life possible also can lead people to conform to standardsin this case fascismthat most of us would reject. To avoid the Hawthorne effect, Milgram told the volunteers that the subject was, in fact, the learner behind the screen, and not themselves. Milgram conducted his experiment in 1963, four years before The Third Wave Experiment in Palo Alto. Many questions haunted me. All of the questions probed at imaginary situations and sought to discover the meaning of this event. Evil becomes banal when ordinary people dont want to admit that they are implicated. Evil becomes banalised by human beings, but it is not in itself banal. With Ron Jones, Philip Zimbardo, Scott Thomson, Sherry Tousley. Several friends of mine posing as reporters and photographers began to interact with the crowd taking pictures and jotting frantic descriptive notes. You are responsible for stopping any student that is not a Third Wave member from entering this room. Oh I was benevolent. "Can we bring friends?" It was as if everyone wanted to dissect the moment, figure out what had happened. Why did the students accept the authority I was imposing? Now that I look back, they appeared much like the child with so called learning disability. I have participated in similar experiments and also discovered the innate being inside is so easily manipulated due to a childlike want for approval and purpose being just the way they are. Oh, you make promises to call each other but It won't happen. They waited. The first day, the students acted almost as if it were a game and obeyed the commands of their teacher who they already trusted and respected. Worked in the "defense" plants. It helped me approach them in a deliberate way. Let Minimal Lite's clean vibe and arresting design elements elevate your content to its fullest potential. We can bring it a new sense of order. It's strange, you most a past student In these chance ways, You catch a few moments of your life. Always we said them together, emphasizing the proper way to sit, stand, and talk. Something in all of us. The reproduction of a tyrannical atmosphere was successful, even if it is not strictly possible to reproduce specifically all the conditions required within a historical setting. "It's your task to design a Third Wave Banner. "Oh my gosh," he gasped. If I suddenly jolted them back to classroom reality I would face a confused student- body for the remainder of the year. After 5 days students were informed it was an experiment on how NAZIsm spread. The Librarian thanked me for the 30' banner on learning which she placed above the library entrance. My announcement unleashed a fervor. There was not a murmur of resistance. Taken to an extreme we have seen and perhaps felt what these actions will lead to. Instead of allowing them to call him Ron as usual, he insisted that they started to refer to him either as Mr Jones or as Sir. It was also the genesis of a secret that I and two hundred students would sadly share for the rest of our lives. Outright organised fascism is capitalism gone over the top, but manipulation of group dynamics happens all over the place - particularly in schools - and is the means used to get people to behave in required ways, absurd ways often but sometimes ways that are practically credible on the surface. We knew that it was interesting learning about different political systems, but not something we would ever emulate. Afraid that if I stopped someone would laugh or ask a question and the grand scheme would dissolve in chaos. Yes, I had been pushing information at them in an extremely controlled setting but the fact that they found it comfortable and acceptable was startling. It was one of the most interesting classes I have ever had. That's right. The deductions taken from such experiments are strong when they are seen alongside natural experiments, where the events have already occurred in history and have already provided a significant and real basis for the analysis of society. We spent hours later talking about what he felt and did, but from that moment on Thursday morning I was more concerned with what might be happening at school. Do you remember the question? He drilled them on their adherence to these rules. While Jones taught his students about Nazi Germany during his senior level Contemporary World History class, Jones found it . Steve turns and gives a quiet salute. We did noise drills in which talking was allowed only to be shown as a detraction. ", The clincher came quite by accident. Human beings circling and holding each other. 10. Ron's problem is he let it get out of control and that is why he was fired. Jones announced to the class that this movement was a part of a nationwide movement and that on the next day a presidential candidate of the Third Wave would announce its existence to the public. "Is it a code or something?" Jones instructed the students on how to initiate new members. Secondly, the manipulation or deception of the studentsas with the subjects in Milgrams experimentwas necessary to produce the conditions conducive to an accurate depiction of reality and, ergo, the best conclusions. In our own personal habits and way of life. I reminded students of what it felt like being in classes where competition caused pain and degradation. "Sit down." These and other controversial experiments led . If you will stand up and display what You have learned in the past four dayswe can change the destiny of this nation. Our class was called Tech Prep(senior class) and it had only 13 boys in the class. I called it the Third Wave salute because the hand resembled a wave about to top over. I found him that morning propped up against the classroom door. You said that Ron was lying. I demanded that they leave the room. You bargained your freedom for the comfort of discipline and superiority. He then apologized to them for how far it all had gone, and played them a film about the Nazi regime to conclude the experiment.[9]. 'Lesson Plan' is a documentary featuring interviews of the original students and teacher of the 1967 Third Wave experiment. Hand raised upward in a shape of a curling wave. 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