Evening journal., 1912-12-31
HIGH SCHOOLS AND SUCCESS IS LIFE.

u EcARD FOR the future of their children should
N mpcl Wilmington parents, whenever possible, to
keep their children In school until they obtained
the full benefit Of high school education The careers
OF many bright boys and girls been spoiled by
failure TO permit them have the educational adj
fantagcs which high schools supply Dr. n c. Schaef-
fer, superintendent Of Education Pennsylvania has
sounded note OF warning TO American parents with
respect TO this important matter lie says that If the
American boy not TO be outsrpped by his foreign
born brother he take full advantage Of the high
school courses OF education.
Dr. schaeaer SAYS there nro to-day az least forty
vocations which require high school education by
way Of preliminary training. He adds that the boy
who quits school before finishing the four-years high
school course shuts against himself the OF oppor-
tunty and makes Il impossible for himself to enter
tho vocatons which aspire be ranked with the pro-
fessons and which have within their ranks tho leaders
Of American civilization.
Thousands OF Delaware boys who should have gone
through The hieh schools have failed TO do 80 Most of
thom have suffered untold injury thereby There are
iuriauces OF course IN which family necessity has
compelled boys TO 20 to work Immediately after COM
rietns their grammar school education. In too many
Instances however parents have needed the pleadngs
Of their children that they be permitted 70 leave school
and go 20 work, when thore Yves absolutely no me-
cessiiy for it Tho child doca appreciate
fully ue Importance of liberal education 1t remains
for the parent 10 TO 50 that such education Is re-
ccivod Tho pleading Of boy or girl who just ls eav-
NN the grammar Hchcu that ne Hhc Do permitted to
qnit school should be frowned upon BY parents and
when s. possible 20 DO no, they should their
parental authority 10 compel tho acquisition OF cnst
a high school education. Boys and girls should ho
taught that the men and women who their brains,
and whose brains ore trained properly for uso are
the ones who attain distinction and earn the money.
Those boys who aspire so through lifo relying upon
their muscles rather than their brains i've ns a rule
hand-to-mouth oxistonoe unless perchoncc they sec
the OF their way aud train tholr brains aftor
leaving school only small proportion or them 90
that While rhoso who wise enough 10 obtain a
liberal education, whose parents wcrc wise enough
to compel thom receive one arc forging ahead and
obtaining the big positions aud large aalarloa those
who wore permitted 70 leave school before taking
tho high school COURSES 0nd many avenues leading
success closed 20 thom, and are compelled 60 work
for days wagos that rulo barely sufficient to
provide tho ordinary nocossarles of lfe
What we have said does not apply to those parents
who cannot under any circumstance permit their chill
drcn to take Che high school courses Neither does &c
apply 90 those boys and girls who arc compohod 70
oavo school TO hccomo broqwnnera for hose depend
ont upon chem. AN such deserving OF sympathy
What have said above applies particularly to those
parents who can afford 20 give to thqia children b-
erai education and who fail TO DO, and those chu-
dren VINO from no nccogsiy whatever fail TO avail
hcmaclves Of he odqeht6na advantages Chat are sup-
piled, free of cAgrge by the hga achoos