Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1911-09-01
Interest Depends Upon Regular
Attendance.

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Attendance.
School opens September 18th.
Every pupil should endeavor to
be present the first day and at
tend regular throughout the
term. Nothing kills interest in
school work quicker than ire
gular attendance.
The school is maintained not
for the benefit of the future but
for the present. Education is
for the now as we'll as for the
hereafter. If the boy and girl
can afford to attend school at all
and no one will doubt it-they
should attend regularly. IRE
gular attendance not only hinders
progress in education, but tends
to form habits of irregularity
which will interfere with pro
gress in any line of work under
| taken.
Objection to Short Course Schools.
The objection to many of the
the so-called colleges is that they
have no standards Of admission
ANYONE can enter at any
time"--complete course and be
guaranteed position in a given
number of weeks or months
Every standard institution has
certain entrance requirements.
The high school requires a GER
titicate Of graduation from the
grammar school and the unive-
sity demands evidence of gradua
ton from an approved high
school IA units in Texas) but
the get.through-quick schools
require nothing but the tuition
in advance.
Education cannot be obtained
in few weeks or months no
more than a child can grow to
manhood in few weeks or
months. Education is a growth,
a systematic development Of all
the powers and capabilities, men
tai. moral and physical. Hence,
to know the mechanical opera
tions of Il typewriter or to keep
set Of books, good as they may
be per set, is not an education,
because it is partial development
or q "lopsided" education to say
the least. The aim and end of
an education should not be to
get dollar per day nor to es
cape work; the educated man
should earn more than dollar
a day and his labor should have
less of the drudgery in it, but
the real purpose of an education
should be all-round development,
so that one may act well his part
wherever his lot may be cast.
II Pays to Go to School.
If an uneducated man earns
81. so day for 800 days in year,
he does very well and if he keeps
it up for forty years, he will earn
81. 5Ox30Oxl0, or $4,000. An
educated man is not generally
paid by the day, but by the
month and by the year, If you
will strike an average of the
earnings of educated men, be-
ginning with the president Of
the United States, who earns
$50, 600 year and run down the
scale until you come to the lower
walks in point of earnings among
educated men, you will admit
that 81 900 a year is a low aver
age for the earnings of educated
labor. For forty years you have
$40, 900 as the earnings of an
educated man. Subtract SIS, 900
from $40, 900, and the difference,
or So, 600, must represent the
value of a boys time spent in
school getting an education.
You will admit that a man who
works with his hands at I'M
skilled labor puts forth as much
muscular effort as a man who
earns livelihood by his wits and
education. Now, if So, 900 rep
resents the value of time Il boy
spends at school getting an edu
cation, what is the value of a
day spent at school.
| The average school life of ev-
cry boy and girl in Missouri is
| loss than Aiubt wars of ~ davS
each; let US say that it takes four
more at POO days, you will find
| that the ,, 200 days at school are
equal to SO, 900 and a simple
division will bring it home to the
comprehension of every school
boy that each day at school prop
lerly spent, must be worth $40
Forced 10 Leave Home.