The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-14
Chips From 4 Teachers Workshop.
ARTICLE
What Does a High School Do For a
Young Man or Woman?

One of the most absurd of the oldfogy
notions is that the high school does not
pay.
First, that it does not pay the student.
Second, that it does not pay the public.
Look at the absurdity of these propo
sitions. Without the high school educa-
ton or the equivalent, one can not enter
any college, university or first-class probes
| sionsl normal school; cannot become a
physician, lawyer, preacher, teacher,
civil engineer, mining engineer, electrical
engineer, architect, or enter any other
of the professions or of business.
Hereafter, not to 60 to high school Or
academy is to close the door OF hope,
| prospect, or aspiration for professional
life.
There are 100, 900 of the best business
positions in mercantile houses, man.
ufacturing plants, and railroad corpor.
ations in the United States for which no
young man will be considered at all
unless he has the equivalent OF a high
chool education.
There are 100, 900 of the best places in
industrial establishments i'll which man
will get extra good pay and a sure job
Immediately upon graduation because he
has graduated from a high school.
Andrew Carnegie has given as a reason
for the great success of his steel plants
that he was the manufactures to buy
scholarships and pay a premium on it.
When a prominent railroad man said
that he would employ no young man for
any position that had promotin ahead,
who had not at least a high school ed
u~cation, asked what he ment by it i'll
view of the fact that neither he nor a-y
of his associates had such an education,
he replied, 'Tllere was no high school
fcr me when l was a young man, but
to-day a high school education is so easy
that a boy who will not get it shows that
he cares more Tor getting to work, Or to
loaf, than he does for getting ready to
work..
The four year that a boy works while
he might be in a high school mounts to
little. Few boys OF this class have a
hundred dollars in the bank by the end
OF the four years, and that means not
more than ST. a year for life, where as a
fellow can earn from ten to fifteen times
So a year more if he has made good use
of his time in the high school.
Second does it pay the public
On the average graduates of a high
school pay ten times as much taxes,
directly and indirectly, as those who had
not had and education above the gram
mer grade, and i'll charity, philanthropy
and crime they cost the town less than
one-tenth as much as the grammar school
graduate, about one-fortieth as much as
the primary grade and ene-two hum
dredth as much as the one who has no
education. all this is shown by govern
ment statistics.
OF course this applies to place where
eHCiC iiaS UCcH d SOOu ulSil sCIlOOI lOf
thirty years or more, but it is equally
true wherever there las been a good
high school for only ten years or less
if We take only the persons of the age
that would have given them on oppon-
tunity to have gone to the high school,
Or if you confine the comparison to those
who actually graduated from the pri-
mary and grammar grade and went to
school no more, with those who did 90
to school for a higher preparation for
work, and the taxes thay pay into the
treasury, directly and indirectly are
decidedly greater than that by the former
class or classes.
This is easily demonstrated if we con-
slider the taxes on the places in which
they do business, and on the various
places Of business and professional men
whom they patrouize.
Indirect taxation is all too little con-
sidered in educational economies.