The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05
POINTS OUT VALUE
OF AN EDUCATION

BY Edward N. Chopper, Phi. D., AS
sistant Secretary, National Child La
Dor Committee.
Some time ago, the United States
Bureau of Education at Washington
printed a statement which showed the
amount of money that had been earn.
ed by different groups of young PEG.
pie up to the time they were twenty.
five. years of age. Those who had re.
NAMED in school until they were eigh-
teen had earned nearly so per cent
more than those who had left school
at fourteen and had been working four
years longer. -.
Such statement of facts will con-
vince intelligent parents that they
should keep their children in school
and not yield to the temptation of per-
hitting them to 60 to work because
the family's expenses are high and
children are paid better wages than
formerly.
Men and women are always CRATE
full for the sacrifices which their par
ents made in order to give them edu-
cation. They know that in the strug-
I gle to make a living, the educated
man or woman has great advantage
over the ignorant and can reach high
er places and receive better pay. To-
day the competition among those who
work, whether they work with hand
or brain, or both, was never so keen
and the ones who are best equipped
are the winners. An education is one
Of the chief items in the necessary
equipment.
Your state law tells you that you
must send your child to school until
he is of certain age and then he may
leave and go to work-if you let him
And he may want to do so. and beg
you to let him take that job in the
factory where his friend Joe works
But you are older and know better
than he does what is for his best in
terest. You know chat if you lei: him
leave school as soon as the law allows,
you are giving him no better chance
in this world than all children get
for the law requires them all to go
to school that long-that if you yield
to this urging now you will have to-
bear his disappointment later when
he finds out that it was a great mis-
take. ..l5 ".
The education which the public
school now gives is better adapted to
the needs of children than the courses
which were taught generation ago.
Today the child learns how to make
himself useful and how to do this in
an intelligent way.
Every child should begin his educa-
tion in the kindergarten, for in it the
seeds of good citizenship are sown.
It is in the Kindergarten that honesty:
loyalty and consideration for the
rights of others are instilled during
he child's most impressionable years.
Patriotic songs and stories of our
great heroes implant deep love of
marching and games de-
velop self-control, team work ana
hand work and modelling
promote efficiency and appreciation
for labor. Surely the foundations OF
The skilled artisan and the loyal cltl-
zen of the future can be laid in MO bet
;er place than in well-equipped kim
lergarten!
After starting in the right way, the
onger the child stays in school. the
more useful he will become and the
better able to take upon himself the
of life. The school of
;oday aims to make intelligent, eff
lent citizens, but it will not succeed
f the child is taken out and put to
work at the earliest possible moment.
The people pay for the kindergarten
elementary, grammar and high schools
20 that their children may have the
benefit of them. You are one Of the
people and you help to support these
schools. They are your schools. built
md kept up for the sake of your chill
lren as we'll as for all other children.
Use them, then. Keep your child in
school, Let him begin in the kinder
,arten and graduate from the high
school.