Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-31
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Education does Pay.

EducatiOn does Pay.
Mr.. EoIIoR -Humiliating and degrad
ing as it is to the cause of learning, yet it
is necessary sometimes to take a monetary
view of it that it may come within the
range of those whose aspirations never rise
any higher, and now propose briefly to
state some of the ways that education ac
tually pays: I. The educated man has a
thousand means of making living where
the uniettered has one. He sees wealth
in the streams, and perceives indications of
metals, Goals, etc., in the hills where it
might lave slumbered unknown for ages.
In fact all practical science is but the ap
dlication of theoretical science. g. Edu-
cation developes wants which must be sup
piled. In savage life mans wants are few
and easily supplied, but the refining infiu-
ence of education developes thousand
luxuries, the qualification of which have
come to be part of the necessities of his
being. Hence the merchant, the manu-
facturer, if they would thrive they must
educate their customers; they must edu-
cate the community to whom they look for
support; and in exact proportion to the in
telligence of community do we find the
demand for good furniture, hardware, dry
goods, chinaware, musical instruments,
books, journals of education, newspapers,
etc. g. Education gives security to wealth
when acquired; and hence we say that a
man in Ohio in the possession of one thou
sand dollars with the assurance that he
will not be disturbed in that possession,
and that his children after him have the
same guaranty, is actually richer than the
man in Central America with million to-
day, but who may not own a cent to-mor-
row. Then the merchant, the mechanic,
and the manufacturer, if they would en-
Joy the wealth they have Accumulated,
they must educate the community grow
possesses more rich men and is the most
intelligent of any city of its size in the
world and the reason of it is, the people
there have been guided by the light of sci
ence. 1t pays there to support the very
best of schools. They are paying from
twenty-five hundred dollars down to three
hundred dollars a year to their teachers
the average being about five hundred and
TWEEN ty-fve dollars annually. If it pays
there to support a thorough system ofcon-
tinuous schools, by the same rule they
would pay here. Take neighborhoods of
money makers, and it would pay them to
patronize learning literally, for nothing en-
hances the value of property SO much as
literary Institutions, by calling in families
and pupils for educational purposes. The
law should be enforced and lived up to
which says that |'it shall be the duty of
the Board of Education in any organized
township of the State, annually to deter
mine by estimate, as nearly as practicable,
such additional amount of money as the
board may think necessary, not exceeding
two mills on the dollar valuation of the
taxable property Of the township, for the
purpose of prozomging, after the State
funds have been exhausted, the terms of
the several sub-districts or primary schools
in the township; and each township board
of education shall make the necessery pro-
visions for continuing the schools in oper
alton, in their respective townships, for at
least seven months in each year. Then
tie magnanimity of the people might make
up enough to continue them the other
five months, making in all twelve.
r. BISSELL.