[neotrope]

Can you imagine Palo Alto HS running this experiment today? Parents and students would be enraged. The teacher would be fired.

The point was to show how easy it is to get caught up in such movements (all of us are susceptible). There’s a good book that shares this story from an ordinary german citizen:

https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Soluti...

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

My takeaway is that way back in the 1960s, someone proved that public schools were easily abused for the sort of indoctrination no one would want for their children...

And then things just continued, as normal.

[lebean]

So they instead prepared the children for college where the real indoctrination happens, to stay under the radar.

(jk of course)

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

Presumably, college kids would be (newly minted) adults, and theoretically less susceptible to indoctrination. At least, that's the lie I'll tell myself when I start day-drinking here in 10 minutes. Made it almost all the way to lunch.

[corethree]

Getting enraged is fashionable nowadays.