The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-01-10
School Days Are Worth
SO Each to Students
(NOrmal School Budget)

Normal School Budget)
my wish for you is that you shall
not only be great teachers, recognize
ing the claims of great profession,
but that you will go out as inspirers
of education, as crusaders in behalf
of more universal training for life,
that you will do all you can not only
to secure the country boy and girl
their rights to education but every
boy and girl with whom you may
come in contact"
So said president Mcfarland in
his last address before the entire De-
cember group of the class of 1917 at
the closing exercises of the fall term.
In part President: Nc a-iand contin-
ued as follows: Aa
II hope you will be prepared to
show the people with whom you come
in contact that education is invest
ment and that you will have the en-
thusiasm to inspire not only chill
dren but parents with this funda-
mental principle that education is an
investment and not expenditure or
waste. Modern civilization is the re-
suit of progressive education. More
and more those who succeed must do
so as the result of training and edu-
cation. More and more society will
reward those who bring efficiency to
her work!
IF you will stop to reflect you
can estimate somewhat the personal
sacrifice and expenditure of money
that has gone into your education
thus far. For every dollar you have
expended, or your parents have ex-
pended for you, the state has expend-
ed more. Evidently from the stand
point of the state education is invest
ment, and so thoroughly has the world
become convinced of the truth of
this that no matter whether the in
dividual is to be plumber, teach
err, or a physician, the state makes
lavish expenditure for his training.
The concrete evidence of the effect
Of education in increasing industrial
efficiency is overwhelming, and this
is true whether we consider it from
the national standpoint or from that
of the individual.
"Kuropatkin, the great defeated
Russian general said that the costly
failures of Russia were due to the
ignorance of her brave untutored
army. The present troubles of Rus
STA are due to a lack of sufficient in
vestment in education to enable her
to organize her armies.
"But not only in organization and
leadership is education necessary. In
every department education increases
productive power. Right in our own
country it has been proven that the
earning capacities Of citizens are
almost in direct proportion to the
efficiency of their school systems.
Massachusetts gave her citizens
seven years of schooling; the Unit
ed States gave her citizens on an
average of four and four-tenths years.
schooling; Tennessee gave her citizens
three years of schooling. The peo-
pie of Massachusetts produced per
capita $3.50 per year; the citizens of
the United States on an average of
S170 per year; the citizens of Tennes-
see $116 per year. From these fig
ures it would seem that schools are
paying investment for the state as
we'll as for the nation. s. s. -
.<''As teachers you must be in a po-
sition to show your pupils that edu-
cation pays. You must be able to
convince parents that education pays,
pays the individual in the practical
consideration of dollars and cents.
Here is the proof. Uneducated la
borers earn on an average $500 per
year for 40 years-$2O,OOO High
school graduates earn on an average
$1,000 year for 40 years-S4O 900.
This education required IL years of
school Of 100 days each, a total of
2160 days in school. If 216O days of
school add $4,000 to the income for
life, then each day at school is worth
to the student 1902. The child who
stays out Of school to earn less than
$500 a day is losing, not making,
money. -
Perhaps my argument has been