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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Proof That Education Pays, June 25, 1919

From The University of North Carolina News Letter, June 25, 1919

Education Pays

Statistics lately gathered show that among 150,000 uneducated children only one has a chance of becoming prominent. Given a high school education his chance is multiplied by 87 times. Elementary schooling falls between these two, while college training increases his opportunity 800 times.

Formerly farmers feared that educated children would feel they had outgrown farm conditions and would look toward the city, but in these times when automobiles, modern household appliances, and especially the use of farm power machinery are increasing in every rural district, the farmer may well change this fear for one that his children, unless well educated, cannot hold a leading position in their own community.
--American Fruit Grower

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