El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-05
Back To School

/ TERE is the problem of the boy of "A:
1Ou school for So to SO week job or keep on going
TO school-which shall It be?
Maybe he is tired Of school It is humdrum at times
Sometimes its restraints hard for live active boy
and then that $40 week looks big de THINKS $40 a
week, every week, would be pretty nearly inches He
could Get 50 many things he wants but can't have he
STAYS in school His father and mother rather want him
to stick his books but won't oppose him too hard II ne
insists on going to work, it's up to him
It to keep that boy-Or maybe girl for girls have the
problem toOn school that the Back to School drive
has been started here If the boy girl has already quit
school at the eighth grade lower grades the Back to
School" campaign inducing them to 60 back to their
books Not only school officials but heads Of Organiza
lions Of kinds and their members are interested IN the
drive Parents are being urged TO keep their children IN
school they may be not better educated merely, but
useful and women capable Of doing more and
Superintendent Tighs of the city schools has pre-
scented figures showing that the average boy who quits
school while IN the elementary grades to take job earns
about $500 to s7oo year. while those who stay in school
four years longer and 90 through the high school able
to earn $500 OF $500 year, average.
Thus four years schooling added cam
ing capacity Of about $1,000 year at the start In an
average lifetime of work this would amount to about s4o
ooo with no increase IN earning capacity after making the
Every boy and girl ought to complete the high school
course matter what is afterward Maybe the
boy wants to be a mechanic He will be better
chanc he goes through the high school than If he quits
at the seventh eighth grade and begins his apprentice
farmer OF storekeePer or office if he gets the add
onal education There exceptions, but the statement
holds a general fact.
Having finished the high school the question Of the
wOrth-wheness of going with studies still further
comes up Sometimes college education greater
earning power than is possible with the high school equip
meut and sometimes not 1t depends what wants
TO do
The day IS passing when college education be
prescribed wholesale wants to teach in high schools
colleges to go into the professions the various
branches Of engineering the college education highly ad
Tlsabe not indispensable If not, It IS worth while
merely for its sake help toward better broader
more enjoyable iving-f afford the time and
money But the boy who wants TO be banker, mer-
chant builder any Of the many things that boy can
BE- outside of the professions be farther ahead in his
chosen line and probably go quite far the long run
if he starts in he finishes high school instead
putting IN four years IN college.
By the time one has finished the high school he ought
to have an idea what he wants to be- Then he ought
Decide after asking the best advice possible whether
not college education IS necessary success in his life
work.
But every boy and girl should stick to the books through
high school, anyway, if that considerable sac
lifice now.