Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-21
Vast Cost of Education in America.

cording to al the rest Of the
world And II may be true
chat here and there an American does
IKE 10 make dollar now and them
every day, possibly.
Hpt the grand passion Of the people Of
tbs United states is for education, not
,norey with them the educa tlonal mi
.rrbo has done It's perfect work. In
,bs,r Efforts for mental training Amer
toms lead the world. The latest official
and trustworthy figures. the only ones,
{, fact. are furnished by the United
states bureau Of education. Its last re-
mort deals with the school year of 1902
,o03. When the report was closed the
tcfal TO be exact. was ls,lSI0lS.
gut even this vast total does not take
{, au the Americans who are striving
eagerly to improve their mental condi-
ian some OF them with every ounce
NJ energy they have left, after doing
tbf,r DAYS work each "a hours
Far. entirely outside the 100000, en-.
,iraly unnutced by the statistcians
cona the students enrolled for instruc-
lion bv the famous Chautauqua uniVer-
sity the 20 600 who are regularly taxi
,rG fhe Y NJ. G. A. courses. and the stu
dents of the correspondence schools,
whose subscribers number thousands.
UNCLE SANS EDUCATIONAL
PROBLEM.
This country alone, of all the coun-
trios I'm the world, has manfully at
tackled, and for It's own preservation,
must accomplish, the herculean task Of
opcriting constantly educational mills
oi such magnitude that they can accom-
o3ata 100000 pupils and students from
almost every race on earth.
Tine pupils OF The common" primary
schools including the city evening
schools. make up 10, 100000 Of the grand
total OF between 100000 ana 1900, 900
composing the American school army
as shown IN the latest educational re-
ports. These l5,1j0,000 are put through
our educational mills without the cost
Of penny TO themselves for tuition,
and In many states for books, even;
each community paying the cost of It's
own schools in the main, the Federal
government educating only about $4,000
Indians, IN round numbers, and $500
primary pupils IN Alaska.
Now, what about the other millions
In the educational army? Wei, rather
more than 100000 are swallowed up
By thosc primary schools that are sup
ported by private means.
A MILLION FOR HIGHER EDUCA-
TON.
Broadly speaking, considerably more
la . IN hs. ..tt .,fl,
10 school In the United States are in
tent on some degree OF the higher edu-
cation. This is one IN every 50 OF the
whole population (allowing that the 76,-
100000 Of 1900 have grown TO S0,0O0000 IN
1905. By all odds larger proportion
than can be shown IN the high schools,
preparatory schools colleges, universe
Ties and professional schools of any
other nation now or ever In history
dwelling on the crust Of the earth.
Not to intimate the pages Of a gazet-
teer loo closely here are the exact hg-
ures showing how this army Of higher
educational students, in America itself
larger than the army Of Japan in Man
Churia, was divided up when the latest
official figures were made:
High schools academies and
preparatory departments
D60SN2 being public high
school students ....,,..., 1868
Universities and colleges pro-
per u.,,,..".........",. 1854
Professional schools Oaw,
medicine, divinity etc)... 6l,S71
Normal schools n....,...,,. GAIA
Total ................... l,O2S,45
That part Of life covering the IL
yelrs beginning with the age Of Is and
ending with rs may properly be con-
sIdtrad the college age" and roughly
speaking the number of persons in
c.udod in these ages IN the United
States when the last census was taken
was 100000. Extending the college
age limit for those who may linger
over professional and post graduate
studies to 81, the total would be about
100000 Besides the million and more
students in these high schools, colleges
and professional schools, there are
about 10000 young men and women
d3lg1J in 1909 attending business
schools, ana more that 10000 studying
rrt music and other subjects IN miscel-
laucous schools-a total, say, Of 200 900
in round numbers who are training
themselves solely to earn 0 living and
"lhIuNl lllt T'lSllltrl llNA'INlNhN W.
any aim at scholarship
AN ARMY or TEACHERS.
More than half a million men and
women from college presidents down
10 plain school ma'ams and school mas
iere are kept busy as teachers through
OUT the school year, The public school
teachers alone numbered 449,2S7 In 1903
enough 10 people city like Buffalo
and have sufficient overflow TO make "a
y.ty ls large as 81. Joseph, Mo.
Everything In America, say the crit
irs OF America, must ultimately be fig
lfed down to the basis Of the dollar II
ls u order then. TO say that the total
cost NJ carrying on the public schools
ln the country Is more than quarter
o' ID billion a year almost exactly that
VI 1880 and that the yearly expense
ar running the colleges and universities
i- rather moro thon one-tenth as much
rising above f27 100000 I'm 1903 The
yearly expense OF carrying on all the
1uer schools In the country has not
been computed,
But there is no doubt that the total Is
good deal more than 5000, 600 900, "a
yum 80 big that the wealth of a Rookie
l'IeI even would melt quickly Il II were
il' 10 the lest Of meeting Il as a year.
]" IaNment Including the students in