eeded to have a real chance in life has grown even more. Second, general trends do not reflect how really awful education conditions are in some schools, in some regions, and for some groups, including African-Americans in urban areas. Third, the gap between white and African-American achievement remains substantial. There are still issues regarding the equality of education still today. There have been demographic changes, not only the flight of the white middle class to the suburbs after the Brown case, but a flight of black middle class as well. This has left inner cities districts to become schools for poor and minority students. There needs to be a socio-economic mix in public schools as well as an ethnic mix. Another problem is the need for space; rich districts tend to have more space per student than poorer districts. This is evidence that the struggle for equality continues.The importance of education is also demonstrated by the actions of the animals in Animal Farm. One of the first points on the agenda after the revolution that gave the animals control of the farm was the work of teaching the other animals on the farm. This work was naturally delegated to the pigs who were the most intelligent animals on the farm. This demonstrates that knowledge is power. Reading and writing classes were immediately instituted to teach all the animals basic literary skills. These classes were a big success due to the natural want of any miseducated individual to learn. Within a year, almost every animal on the farm was literate to some degree. Both of the ruling pigs, Napolean and Snowball, realized the need for education. They differed on the focus of this education. Napolean believed in concentrating the education effort towards the young, whereas Snowball believed in educating everyone. Napolean showed this commitment when he assumed the private education of the nine young puppies, although he had alterior motives for th...
