Jane Elliott (born 1933, Riceville, Iowa) is an American teacher and anti-racism activist. She created the famous “blue-eyed/brown-eyed” exercise, first done with grade school children in the 1960s, and which later became the basis for her career in diversity training.
Read more about Jane Elliott: Origin of The Idea, The First Exercise, Controversy Surrounding The Exercise, Origin of Workplace Diversity Training, Criticism of Elliott-inspired Diversity Training, Legacy of The Original Exercise
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“I want the kind of job that is interesting but doesn’t take very much time.”
—Anonymous 14-year-old, U.S. niece of author Jane O’Reilly. As quoted in The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 7, by Jane O’Reilly (1980)
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