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Looks at the 1970 experiment in which a teacher grouped her third grade class by eye color and proceeded to give preferential treatment to the blue-eyed group in order to evaluate the effects of racial stereotyping on children, visits the class fifteen years later to see whether the experiment had any long-lasting effects on participants, and shows a similar session conducted with adult correctional system employees.

Examines the impact Jane Elliott's lessons in discrimination has had on her students, discussing how her students were influenced by the exercise, in which the class was segregated into inferior and superior groups based on their eye color, has influenced their lives, even ten years after they had Elliott's class.