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Show High Wages The following figures should be an incentive to any young man to work for an education. The average educated man gets $1,000 a year. He works forty years, making a total of $10,000 in a lifetime. The average day laborer labor-er gets 151.50 per day, 300 days in the year, ot $450 per year. In ten years he earns $ , Soo, or fiS.ooo in a lifetime. The difference between be-tween $40,000 and $tS,ooo,or $22, xxx), .equals the value, of tan j education educa-tion in dollars. To acquire this ca. pneity requires twelve years of school, 1 So da vs each, or a total of 2, 1 do days. Divide $22,000, value of an educition, by 2,160, uumbct of days required in getting it, and we find that each dav at school is worth a little more than $10 to a pupil. |