Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-01-17
WHAT IS Boys TIME
WORTH IN SCHOOL?
ARTICLE WRITTEN BY PROF
HENRY KRUGER.
Brother of Mrs. ChdS. COetSCh of
This Clty-ReSided Here in His
BOyhOOd DdyS-NOW Principal
of One OF the Milwaukee Schools
Worth READING.

The following from the Milwaukee
Free Press will prove of interest to
many of the readers of The Leader,
not only because of the worth OF the
article In question, but because 1t was
written by we'll known former Wat
ertown boy, now principal of the Twel-
tth district school. No. |. Milwaukee.
The author is Prof. Henry Kruger, a
brother Of Mrs. Charles Goetsch of
this city. with whom he made his hume
in his boyhocod days, after the death
of his parents. Mr.. Kruger is what
Is termed self-made man. After at
tending the Watertown High school,
he attended and graduated from the
Whitewater Normal school with non
ors, working his way through by self
energy. He has climbed the ladder of
success, till he is now recognized as
one of the leading educators of Mil
waukee. The article following writ
ten by Prof. Kruger, should be read
by every boy IN school, or out of
school:
What is q boys time in school
worth in dollars and cents?
In 1.-The Little Chronicle" of Nov.
80 appeared the following artic le:
What Is boys time IN school worth
in dollars and cents? The Little
Chronicle" states. that the average
earning of an uneducated man are
about 81. so day. He works about
800 days in year, and continues
this process for about forty years.
His life earnings will therefore, be
81. 5Ox30Ox40, or $4,000.
The average earnings of an educat.
ed man are about 81, 600 a year For
forty years, it would be $40, 600.
The difference between the two ear
nings, $4,000, would represent the
value of a boys time spent in school,
getting an education.
A boy spends about eleven years to
get good education. There are 200
days IN school year. In eleven years
of school life there are, therefore,
2. 200 days. Dividing $4,000 gives
the value of day in school as $40.
How many of our boys who are
ii ying truant or fooling their time
away in school, realize that they ars
practically throwing away $40 every
day?
If parents would realize the value
that an education has for their child
rem. they would be more inclined to
keep their children in school more
and not send them to work
IN factories or other stores as soon as
they are IA years of age.
Education pays. More education
pays better. One of the main
springs of poverty and crime is ignor-
ance.
1t parents would not only realize
that it isn't what the boy earns in
the years before he is twenty-one
that counts. Up to that time his life
is preparatory
You all know young men who can
not spell. who cannot read, who can not
write a sentence correctly.
They are not wanted, society does
not excuse them and their field of
endeavor Is narrowed down to a point
where the thousands struggle for a
living.
Ignorance means q bare living aC
the hardest kind OF work. The
muney secured by child often means
the sacrifice of future. Education
pays. In these days of keen competi-
ton, every young man should be well
equipped.
DR.. William I. Harris, the ex-
commissioner of education of the I'm
tied States made certain InvestIga-
lions which established the following
facts,
"That boy with only common
school education has in round num-
Oers on chance In 5000"
"That high school training in
:reases this chance nearly twenty
two tImes.'
"The college education added, gives
the young man about ten times the
chance of high school boy and two
hundred times the chance of the boy
whose training stopped with the COM
non school,"
"That the A b graduate is pre-
successful and that he self
educated man Is inconsplcuous.