Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-02-16
EDUCATIONAL
Does Education Pay?

In any investment of time, labor,
or money, THE question is will it
pay"
Let US look at education in q bust
ness and practical way and ask our
selves the question, will it pay to
educate the youths of Mississippi?
Bring it closer home, will it pay to
educate the children of Green Coun
ty? Or will it pay to educate the
children of your own home?
1t will take-aAehild 8 years to com
plete the free school curriculum, 8
months to the year or 1880 days.
The average wages of an uneducated
man is $500 year, that of man
who has completed the free school
course is 800; his gain is 500 year
over the uneducated man: Count 40
years his laboring career, he would
gain $4,000 What made the gain?
it was the 1880 days of free school
ing. $4,000: 12S0-S35, what he
gained each day he was in school.
From the money side of view,
which is the least, will it pay to go
to the free schools?
Let's go a little further. In four
years, nine months year, a boy can
complete the preparatory course and
be ready for q College or an Univer-
sity. The average wages of an Aca-
demic degree is $60Oa year, gain of
5000 a year or $4,000 in life. What
made the gain? 1t was the 720 days
in the Academy. SS000-:-720-11x
what he made each day he was in the
Academy.
After you have finished the free
school course will it pay to spend
720 days in the Academy at profit
of $ll q day.
Let S go another step. The aver
age wages of a man who has COM
pleted the College or University is
$1,000 year; or $4,000 during life
of 40 years. What made this gain?
1t was four years or 800 days in Col
lege or University. $4,000 900
days-S20 his daily wages while in
College. Will it pay to go on through
College.
Money is the least value that can
be placed on education.
That boy who plods through rain,
mud, and snow for an education, the
value of that education will never
die as long as the sun shines.
Who can calculate the value of the
education of that great man, Column
bus, who faced the storms. rode the
waves and fought the very worst'of
disappointments and hardships.
Can we look down the stream of
time and see the education of Wash
ington, which was obtained by the
Pickering light of pine knot, when
it will cease to be useful to the world
Why not educate the boys and
girls as thoroughly as any State, is
it because they are in Mississippi?
The scholastic year of 1905, the
enrolment of the State was 199, 293
white children, the attendance was
1l48Tl, attendance was 573 of the
enrolment. How is that for our
proud Mississippi? Somebody is not
doing their duty. Is it you, or is it
II?
So long as the attendance Is so err
regular, we will have uneducated
children and uneducated men and
women. The grand work of the ma
tion must go on; how can Mississippi
play her part if she is not educated.
We must learn to lay brick or we
must carry them up the ladder to
the man who can: he viii receive the
pay and honor and we the worn out
bodies.
A man cannot live higher than his
thoughts; and the state cannot be
greater than its people.
/ Will it pay for Greene County &c
educate its children? Parents will
lit pay for you to educate your sons
and daughters? What other proper
ty have you that is worth more than
your children? Can you spend your
money and time to a greater advan.
tage? Nothing would make you Sc
happy as to see your children GO out
Into the world and be able 10 meet
and solve the difficult problems d
life. IUUs ANXIOUS.
Merrill. Miss,