can you say which comes from the chicken or the egg the acorn on the you good business or good education in one community there's a high level of education the people business an industry probably support their schools the schools in this community speak for themselves and for those who put the bills in another community of corresponding size a lower level of education the people are less alert to the schools are not as good as the schools tell another story in the community with the best education more shoppers more merchandise moving higher average of per capita sales in the other community are shoppers maybe things will look up in the long run in the first community there's a larger magazine circulation for one thousand population a much smaller circulation in the second community a decline in demand in the city or town which excels in education more telephones per capita in the other poor telephones are different reflected in the size of the telephone directories in the first community better homes and people with the ability to rent them lower property values in the second lower rentals the progressive  education as an essential instrument through which it's commerce and industry and agriculture can be expanded in rising degree but agree expansion begins with the people and follows a definite cycle th people business in industry invest more tax dollars in education at the outset the quality of their schools reflects the wisdom of their investment or education is the basis of genuine production of wealth and the cultural instructor boy and farming and in conservation of natural resources the community games in more productive soil and bigger harvests the student of typing shorthand and business machines becomes a producer of bottom graduation tax help training to know a community is better than its people or other people better than their education the aspiration one can spread within is the absurd stored higher things which education stimulates as education raises the cultural level so it must also introduce you to the know how of production and store interest in prison if they can see and service with graduation the community receives a news apply of young people who want a better life from the one hand and who have the ability to work for it on the other now that tact investment returns to the taxpayer graduates of a goodly supported schools earn their way more profitably in the economy of the community as most likely balders the girl who stud learns business methods more quickly and becomes an asset that much sooner as she produces she earns more to buy the things she wants the objectives of the boy who studied farming take tangible form in the meat food and produce he raises to help feed the community or the student radio it's on the air the cycle brings him to the community as a radio engineer on the farm  business or industry true in very common practice better schools pay for themselves through larger incomes to more productive people whose families in turn buy a greater volume of goods and services your local chamber of commerce has extensive material to demonstrate that education only the community gets what it pays for completed ales are contained in the publications of the united states chamber of commerce including one in titled education up living standards describing how a nation becomes wealthy the chamber presents evidence that countries which wish to raise their levels of income should increase their education and technical training columbia with the rich land o minerals low cost power and good climate has a low level of education and technical training low income results although this is expected to rise as steps are being taken to increase education denmark in comparison has sandy soil a few minerals limited forests and poor power but denmark has a high level of education and technical training with a correspondingly high standard of living mexico has great resources low education and low income extended education is plan to reverse this new zealanders the opposite good resources higher education one of the world's highest income another contrast each has great resources but brazil has little education and technical training the united states has a relatively high level brazil's in gun is lol ours is high but along with other nations brazil is expanding education even in trying economic times great britain for one is doubling her educational budget and russia is also moving ahead her budget is approximately four times greater than that of the united states on the globe of the world the nations which daringly use research and greatly increased education will rapidly increase their income the correlation of income and education is also seen in the publication called cation and investment in people in this the united states chamber suggests that for their mutual good business man and educator should get together and talk things over your urge to major your own community and you're asked if life in your community rip likes the fact that thirty six brutal education program necessary in your schools despite compulsory school laws more than a million young people do not attend teachers paid more than twenty seven hundred dollars annually return murder the given a day them both paid less than eight hundred thirty dollars annually what about your teachers for your own sake discuss and answer the question this publication asks your community deserves a return on your educational tax dollars a practical return that can be measured in good business downtown and a community wide desire for a more gracious intelligent living certainly these members of the community deserve the best it's only right that every child should have adequate educational opportunity who can say but that he will manage a successful business then perhaps medical research will gain by his efforts the son she bears may guide our steps toward world peace the significant fact is that the young do grow up and in the degree that their education impose them a lot and seek a better life the community will gain or lose we may never settle the question of which comes first the chicken or the egg the acorn  but the proof is clear that where a community a state or nation courageously invests substantial share that resources in education the investment invariably is returned in better business and a higher standard of living this we do know good education is good business