Arizona republican., 1904-05-09
pHOENIX. ARIZONA, MAY .9th' 19O+,
flow nuch Does Education Help?

flow Huch Does EduCaIlOh AtNP
 peference was made in these eel ,F,ns not long ago to the fact that lie ,,,,t,,,,e hook. who's Who in America vyhevein the biographies of more than 74 600 eminent Americans are slNeH' shows incidentally that pracucahy a4i 4, the men who have made record o,tf+lirg then, to mention owe much CT ,hair success to their education. rms interesting subject is taken up Ill au- vance sheets of the forthcoming report of the United States bureau or educ"- ,.on and the government officials com ,,,srd the editors of "Who's Who for having rendered the country service bv inducing more than ten thous''iiN mon now living in the United states who iare the most notable in all de- r,artments of usefulness and reputable endeavor, to report their educatioh' The government report points out that these men have won enviable dlsdnc- lion. and the facts they give help an svyer the questions, Does education ha1n one to success?" and What amount of school training helps most!
 If is shown by the commissioner or education that according to the last r~nyus there are in the United states 14.7st. 403 males over thirty years old The bureau estimates that these are divided educationally as fellows: Class 1. Without education... 1,I5"Oz5 Class 2. With only common
 school training or trained
 outside of organized schools .12,O ,O54,335 Glass 8 With regular high
 school training added........ 65i,45- Glass {. With college or high
 CT education added............ 325'el5 Ovritting the few persons under thir- ty years old, the report from 1O,7O4 mo- tables shows: Without education, none: self-taught, 24; home taught, SIS; with common-school training only, I.nsS; with nigh-school training, 1,62I; tEith college training, 7,7O9, Of whom 6,f29 were college graduates. That is; From the 1,757,O25 of Glass i TO
 notable reported.
 From the 12.O54, 1885 of Class ? came
 3.SsS. one for every. .S,Sl2
 (24 of these report themselves
 as self-taught; PTS as prl-
 vataly taught)
 From the 657, ,432 of Class 8 came
 1927, one for every. 4Of From the 325,613 cf Class f came
 7,7O9, one for every. z2
 1t thus appears:
 l. That from 1900 to 1900 the uned- ucated boy in the United States failed entirely to become so notable in any department of usefulness and reputable endeavor as to attract the attention of the "Whos Who" editors. and that only 24 taught men succeeded.
 9 That boy with only a common school education had, in round num- bers, one chance in 5000.
 2 That a high-school training in creased this chance nearly twenty-two times.
 4. That college education added gave the young man about ten times the chance of a hieh-school boy and two hundred times the chance of the boy whose training stopped with the com mon-school.
 ,. That the A. E. graduate was pre- emineatly successful and that the self educated man was inconspicuous.
 Frcm the nature of the case it cannot be claimed that these classifcations sFe exact, but they are based upon the fullest statistics ever obtained, and the necessary estimates have beeen made by government experts. It is also doubtless true that other circumstances contributed to the success of these trained men, but after all reasonable allowances are made the figures force 8he conclusion that the more school training the American boy of that period had the greater were his chances of distinction. How will it be in this century?
 It is unnecessary to extend this in- quiry to woman. Education is practi- cally her only door to eminence.