The Winslow mail., 1925-09-04

OIdI salary I'll 70 years OF age,
$5,112.50 and $7,337.50.
Studies made ten years ago put
the annual salary of high school
graduate at $1,000, and that of the
illiterate at $500 Considering the
average working life to be forty
years this will make a difference
of $4,000 in the wage earning
ability of the average of men. Con-
sidering further that it takes the
average individual twelve years of
$50 schools days each to complete
the high school, it can be readily
calculated that each of these 2,160
days spent in school is worth more
than NINE DOLLORS.
Statistics are available to show
that graduation from a night school
in accounting has increased the
earning ability of the graduates
from rs to $50 per cent. Business
men usually do not pay such in
creases in salaries unless they re-
ceive value in return. This re-
turn value was better service rem
dered the employer which was pro-
duced by better education. These
instances are sufficient to convince
that education pays in a financial
way.
Practical Examples
Let us take from Who's Who in
America" some ratings which have
to do with education. Out of
nearly five million uneducated men
and women in America only 81 or
.0006% are mentioned. Of 33 mil
lion people with as much as a COM
mon school education sos or
.0024% are listed. Of the two
million with high school educa-
tion 1245 or .06%o are mentioned.
Of the one million with college or
university training 5768 or $3.50
are listed. This would indicate
that a common-school education
multiplies ones chances for dis
tinction by 4; high school edu-
cation by 100; and a college train
ing by 975.
A Thorough Education Pays Best
There are some folks who ague
that it does not pay to be too good
in ones work in school. A study
was made some years ago by Mr.
Foster of Reed college which will
give some light on this subject
The twenty-three most successful
men of the class of 1894 of Har-
ward, selected by three impartial
judges, received four times as
many ga" grades as did the other
men of the class proportionately.
Following a similar plan, three 9TH
er judges selected the most sue
cessful men among the graduates
of the first twenty-four classes
graduated by the University of
Oregon. An examination of the
scholarship records of these men
showed that So per cent had been
good students, and that only II per
cent had been weak students. Of
the graduates who were not re
garded as successful, So per cent
had been weak students and only
II per cent had been good students.
This certainly shows a very high
correlation between success and
good scholarship, as judged by i'm
partial men. From the records of
1867 graduates Of Wesleyan uni
versity, Professor Nicholson con-
cludes that of the highest honor
graduates (the two or three lead
ing scholars of each class) one out
of two will become distinguished !;
of the Phi Beta Kappa men, one
out of three; of the rest, one out Of
ten Further proof of the relation
between scholarship and success in
life was found by Professor E. G.
Dexter. He compared the records,
before and after graduation, of the
men of twenty-five colleges. OF
the living graduates of these col
leges, he found that about per
cent were listed in Who's Who;
whereas of the honor students he
found So per cent listed. Of the
Yale valedictorians, 56 per cent are
listed in Who's Who" That is to
say, man at the head of his class
appears to have more than twenty
! five times as many chances of dis
tinction as the average man of the
class. Again, of the 1905 living
alumni of two of the larger New
England colleges, "a per cent OF
| those graduated in the first tenth