Educating Tomorrow's Exploited: Today's educational institutions base their curriculum and teaching agendas off the accumulated collective knowledge that comes from the hundreds of years of history of applied studies. School curriculum have been reformed repeatedly throughout time, always basing this change on new evidence of better or improved teaching materials. There are many powerful names associated with education reform. Horace Mann is one of the men whose influence can still be felt today in any American school. His flagship contribution to the education institution includes the "Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education", written in 1848, which outlines the foundation principles and responsibilities of a school. There are many of today's contributers to reformation that echo or build on goals Mann proposed of an education institution. Jonathan Kozol is one of these contributors. He illustrates, in his essay "Still Separate, Still Unequal", the reemergence of racial segregation in schools by providing a factual basis for his assertions. He successfully correlates the education differences in schools of different racial consistencies.
	Kozol identifies the existence of "two extremes of society", being white and non-whites. He identifies the divide as a difference of ethnic groups. This divide can also be described as an economic class difference because of the direct correlation. This class struggle, between the wealthy and poor, in the 1800s still exists today. Mann would agree that a class struggle exists today because of the extreme variations in the ethnic constitutions and income. Kozol cited that Blacks and Hispanics constituted approximately 90% of enrollments in Chicago and Washington DC.
	Mann states that with each new generation the gap between the classes grow. This concept can also be seen in Kozol's case where the number of school doctors dropped from 400 to 23 in twenty-three years. As this class difference grows so will the effects it has on society. The lower quality education that underprivileged students receive will create a growing manual-labor force ready to be exploited. The existence and influence of the oppressive forces make themselves apparent in poorer schools where course listings included hair dressing and sewing. The existance of this class divide is highly predictable and visible. Mann would even be able to identify this trend, with limited knowledge of today's world, and relate it to the relationship between the baron and the serfs. Mann would argue that this divide must be closed or else it would only lead to further exploitation and a decrease in economic cultural diversity. Many of the needle workers at sewing factories are capable of contributing in other, more benefitial, ways to the economy.
	Mann stressed the need of an education institution that instills a positive set of morals and political beliefs. Kozol perhaps unknowingly touched on these two principles in his recounter with his fourth grade teacher Mr. Endicott. Mr. Endicott's disciplinary methods involved the social outcast of students who were deemed, by himself, to have acted immortal. This disciplinary method has many effects on the students. The pointers were meant to think that acting in accordance to society's morals is correct, regardless of the moral's nature. Creating individuals that do not deviate greatly from the norm or expectations of society allows a government to easy plan its actions because it knows how to please a majority of the society. Mann expressed the importance of the politically savvy individual. Moral corruption can undermine a good political education. 
	Kozol also lightly touched on Mann's belief that personal health and physical education must be taught in school. Mann acclaimed modern science as part of the solution to a sickly world where illness, "famine, from non-production, would speedily threaten the whole." Kozol cited that the number of doctors serving in the school system had dropping from 400 in 1970 to 23 in 1993. A school system that does not prioritize the student's health would not put emphasis on teaching it.
	Jonathan Kozol breathes the spirit of Horace Mann's ideas through his essay. Mann's principles for a successful education have greatly influenced Kozol's view of today's educational system and will affect future generations.