Show A GREAT AMERICAN INDUSTRY bus ness of aducat ng the nat ons ch idren Is g one one 0 the greatest of all american industries Is the ol 01 educating he boys and girls the conduct of this business costs as much as a year it takes 40 to pay the teachers and each ear to provide buildings oyer one fifth of the entire the united states are enrolled as pu alls in the schools the number of teachers employed in the common schools in th school year ended june 1907 was of these were women the average school year Is now much longer than in former tames now being days when we consider the volume ot books of sta of school supplies for all this army of 19 school children we i A are impressed with the enormous eco comical and commercial importance of the school system in a speech to normal school students in georgia the other day judge tatt said there la no higher profession in which self sac nelce is manifested more clearly and in which more good can be bonfe than that of the teacher and I 1 hope you will continue it through life and one of the reasons why self sacrifice is so clearly manifested is that teach ing is the worst paid profession in which a person can engage there is scarcely a city in the land in which the most menial does no pay far better than the average salary received by the teacher in the public schools |