Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 6 | Education Pays

EDUCATION PAYS. That it paj's boys and girls to remain in school after their grammar school graduation, is clearly proved by a table compiled by the United States bureau of education. The statistics show that the years devoted to ' a high school course, and, better still, to a college course, aro time well spent. It is made clear that boys and girls who go to work at the end of the grammar gram-mar term rarely get good jobs.' Tho work they find to do is unskilled; it affords little training or chance for advancement. ad-vancement. When they grow older they find that they are still unskilled and still untrained for wbrk that offers a future. Although quite often boys and girls, at the close of their grade school years, obtain high wages for beginners, be-ginners, these wages seldom grow because tho work requires no special ex-pertness. ex-pertness. The table referred to compares the wages of a group of children who left school at the ago of 14 and another group who left school at 18. At 25 years of age the average boy who had remained in school until 18 had received more than $2000 more salary than the average boy who left at 14, and was then receiving in excess of $900 a year more. This is equivalent to putting out $18,000 at 5 per cent interest. These figures are prepared by tho government and may be accepted as trustworthy. It needs no comment on our part to drive their significance home to intelligent parents. Keep the boys and girls in school as long as possible. The time, money and effort spent in acquiring an education form an investment which brings rich returns for a lifetime.