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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