Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-10
EDUCATION ? AVS.
COLLEGE COURSE WORTH WHILE
ACCORDING TO U. S. BUREAU
OF EDUCATION.
Personal Report From 10000 Men Who
Have Attained Notable Distinction
In Their Pursuits Give Strong Proof
OF the Value of Higher Education.

College education increases the
chances for notable success in the
worlds work over those of the common
school education over two hundred
times. The high school training gives
an advantage twenty-five times as
great as that of the common school.
These are statements and statistics
which will appear soon in the report
from the United States bureau of edu-
cation.
Ten thousand men who have won
enviable distinction in many different
lines of work have been induced by the
editors of who's Who in America" to
give detailed statement of their edu-
cation and upon these personal reports
the officials in the Bureau of Education
have been able to draw the above con-
clusions.
The portion of the report referring
to this matter is in part as follows:
The editors of who's Who in Amer
lea" have rendered the country a SER
vice by inducing more than ten thous-
and of the men now living in the Unit
ed States who are most notable in all
| departments of usefulness and reput-
able endeavor" to report their educa-
ton. These men have won enviable
distinction and the facts they give
will help answer the questions. Docs
education help one to SUGGEST" and
| ''What amount of school training helps
most?"
According to the last census there
are in the United States 14,794,4O3
males over thirty years old. The Unit
| ed States Bureau of Education esti
mates that these are divided education
ally as follows:
Glass 1. Without education. 1,757,O23
Class 2. With only common
school training or trained
outside of gained
SCHOOLS -. ......... .ll,Vo4,ooo
Glass 8. With regular high
school training added -. 657,432
Glass 4. With college or
higher education added. S25,61c
4 "Omitting the few persons under
thirty years old, the report from 10,
! 704 notables shows: Without educa
ton, none; selftaught, "a: home-taught
278; with comm on-school training only
l1.066; with high school training. 1927
with college training, 1909, Of whom
6,129 were college graduates. That is
From the 1,757,023 of Class no not
able reported.
From the 12,054,335 of class 2
came 1858, one for every j.. 8,S1
I24 of these report themselves as
self-taught; 27S as privately
taught
From the 657,432 of class came
1927, one for every .... 80. 40
From the S25,613 of class came
7,7O9, one for every ). -. 500. 4
"It thus appears:
"That from 1900 to 1870 the unedr
Gated boy in the United States faile
entirely to become so notable in an,
department of usefulness and reputabl
, endeavor as to attract the attention c
the who's Who" editors, and tina
only "a self-taught men succeeded.
"That a boy with only common
school education had, in round nun
bers, one chance in 5000.
"That a high school training increa!
ed this chance nearly TWENTY-FIVE
times.
= "That college education added CAV
the young man about ten times tn
chance of a high school boy and tw
IuC SA0bSO VI IA1S w
whose training stopped with the con
mon school.
"That the A. B. graduate was pr
s eminently successful and that the sci
IS educated man was inconspicuous.
1t From the nature of the case it ca
n not be claimed that these classitic
J. tons are exact, but they are based u
d on the fullest statistics ever obtaine
l. and the necessary estimates have bee
If made by government experts. 1t is all
doubtlss true that other circumstance
contributed to the success of the:
trained men. but after all reasonab
r allowances are made the figures fore
n the conclusion that the more schoo
~ training the American boy of that pc
If iod had, the greater were his chanc
S. Of distinction. How will it be in til
le century,"