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Oct 14, 2008 · The third wave, 1967: an account - Ron Jones. 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. For years I kept a strange secret. I shared this silence with two hundred students.
The Third Wave was an experimental movement created by the 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.
Oct 21, 2023 · The Third Wave was real. It was a national movement to save the country from the feckless Republicans and Democrats who couldn’t agree with each other. The problem, he told them, was that democracy was inherently weak. It idealized the individual, whereas the Third Wave idealized the community.
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Mar 17, 2017 · The Third Wave began as an experiment in the classroom of first-year history teacher Ron Jones to simulate fascism in World War II and demonstrate to skeptical students how the Nazi Party rose to ...
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Ron Jones (born 1941) is an American writer and formerly a teacher in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his classroom exercise called "The Third Wave" and the book he wrote about the event, which inspired the made-for-TV movie The Wave and other works, including a theatrical film in 2008. The original TV movie won the Emmy and Peabody ...
Apr 11, 2024 · The Third Wave Experiment had a profound and enduring impact on both Jones and his students. For Jones, it served as a cautionary tale about the dangers of unchecked authority and the ...
Oct 14, 2008 · Remembering the Third Wave - Leslie Weinfield. Article about the 1967 experiment in Cubberley High School, California, in which a teacher created a proto-fascist movement which got out of hand. The experience was dramatised in 2008 film The Wave. Submitted by Steven. on October 14, 2008. Peninsula, September 1991.
