Comments | buschtrommel: On Coffee, Frank Capra, and a German Film

buschtrommel

On Coffee, Frank Capra, and a German Film

Apr 20, 2008 19:13

Well, it has been a while since I found the time to jot something down here. It's not really been for a lack of time. It's just that after a day in the office which consist out of typing silly comands into a computer, I find my motivation to write an online journal receeding enormously ( Read more... )

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diarytypething April 20 2008, 23:44:55 UTC

I remember reading 'The Wave' at school as part of Standard Grade English (the English department had ended up with a set of 30 or so copies, so persisted in teaching it), but I didn't realise it was famous because I've never known anyone else to admit to having read it.

If it was based on a real experiment, it was definitely cheating to use teenagers to test whether or not people are inclined to follow arbitrary rules just because everyone else does.

buschtrommel April 21 2008, 10:42:09 UTC

Most of what I know about the actual experiement I've got from film reviews and alas Wikipedia (The Third Wave).

It still seems to be a very popular school book in the States so a lot of people might remember reading it. It's not very popular in Germany.

My most memorable school book is called "The Day They Came To Arrest The Book" about the 1st Amendment and Huckleberry Finn. Interesting and readible.