Education in the 1960s

Education is one of the most important aspects in people’s lives and its benefits are unlimited, it is acquiring even more importance than it's been in past few decades. In today's society education is essential in order to be successful economically and socially. In addition education is an essential right for all humans, it also has the power to shift the status of economically challenged people and make them rise above that by following its path. Even though it is an essential right for all humans there was and still is discrimination in its field. This essay will discuss how discrimination in education and employment has caused a major setback on the life of minorities.
There are two major dilemmas that appear throughout the 1960s and our current time. The first major problem is that education system is always rapidly growing in all its levels, which leads to increasingly crowded classes that can’t uphold the required material and faculty to that huge number of students, “in the 1960s public school enrollment was 1.9 million students in excess of classroom capacity, a situation that persisted throughout the decade.” This particular problem leads educational institutes to either cut back on their materials or substitute their staff members with lower quality staff to continue operating. Some educational institutes tend to limit the number of students who attend their classes by discriminating against them. We saw that in the 1960s when the segregation was still in motion, even though segregation was a norm in the lives of people in the 1960s, the education system was supposed to be distributed equally among all different ethnicities; however, it is a well-known fact that African American and other minorities were treated as second class citizens and that resulted in them receiving a lower standard of education than whites. Even after the outlawing the segregation of education in 1954 by the Supreme Court a lot of states kept on with their same methods of