Lesson Plan | movie | 2010 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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"Lesson Plan" is a documentary film about The Third Wave (aka The Wave & Die Welle) classroom experiment, as told by the | dG1fbEZGUUJnTDlhdDQ

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:04 Up until that point, I was raised

00:08 to believe everything that the government said as the truth.

00:12 Our country was having economic problems,

00:14 that we could do better economically,

00:17 that we could do better politically, militarily,

00:22 that there was a lot of weakness going on

00:24 with our current administration.

00:26 We were in a war that nobody wanted to be in,

00:29 that we were going to find a better way,

00:31 that we were going to get rid of those people in Washington who

00:33 were not following what the mass of people wanted to follow.

00:37 For years, I tried to hide from it, avoid it, not discuss it.

00:41 It's a responsibility to really try to understand what is good

00:45 and what is evil.

00:46 There was this teacher that taught

00:47 neo-fascism in this school.

00:49 Students were so easily coerced into doing something

00:52 that obviously wasn't right and just took over their lives.

00:56 It's the perversion of the incredible power

00:59 of the human mind that can do almost anything.

01:02 All the magical things the human mind does in terms

01:04 of creativity can get perverted to justify

01:07 any evil, any transgression.

01:09 The first few days, the third wave was a game.

01:11 We had lots of rules.

01:13 We had lots of things we had to do.

01:15 There is a certain strength that comes from discipline.

01:18 The question is, to what end?

01:20 She shared with me that she had been born and raised

01:22 in Nazi Germany and that this was

01:24 the climate of her upbringing.

01:26 And she said, this is so like that.

01:29 And you can't take this sitting down.

01:31 You have to do something.

01:32 I refused to give him my name.

01:34 The other guy started to move over

01:36 like it was actually going to be confrontational.

01:38 I was getting ready to go to battle.

01:40 It looked like maybe it was going to be a fistfight

01:42 right here in the hallway.

01:43 He took his advantage as a teacher

01:46 with a guaranteed audience of young people

01:48 to try to indoctrinate him.

01:50 He wasn't teaching them.

01:51 He was indoctrinating them.

01:52 And all of a sudden, the class would start chanting in unison,

01:55 guilty, guilty, guilty.

01:57 There was a line crossed all over the place.

01:59 What they did, they were not proud of.

02:01 I think that's what hurt a lot of the people.

02:03 I thought we were trapped.

02:05 I went into a panic.

02:06 I stood up and I said, I'm getting the hell out of here.

02:09 And this wasn't about teaching students

02:13 or running a simulation.

02:14 This was like-- this was out of bounds.

02:19 For some people, the world is filled only

02:21 with prisoners and guards, power and powerlessness.

02:25 You have a choice.

02:26 You want to be powerless or you want to be powerful?

02:28 Everybody wants to be more powerful than powerless.

02:31 And the question is, what are you willing to pay?

02:33 What are you willing to do to go from being

02:35 powerless to being powerful?

02:37 For most people, it's an awful lot.

02:40 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:44 [MUSIC ENDS]

02:47 [BLANK_AUDIO]

Lesson Plan | movie | 2010 | Official Trailer

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