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Show we gladly recommend school work to all boys and girls, men and women. We hope every student stu-dent will have a profitable year and that, as a result, become better fitted for modern life, economic, eco-nomic, social and cultural. To teachers, about to begin again the hard task of training the inexperienced and confident youth of the land, we offer our salutations. They have ahard job ahead of them. Their work is often unappreciated, even by those they help the most and, in every community, com-munity, there are some who think that teaching is a half -holiday profession. SCHOOL DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN Millions of children will be going back to school next week and hundreds of thousands of young men and women will begin their work at the colleges and universities of the nation. Naturally, the reopening of school days is an event, not only in this city but throughout the United States. In many family circles it is the major undertaking, requiring sacrifice and unselfishness un-selfishness in order that children may continue their work at school. The cause of education in the United States has had the support of nearly every American because of the conviction that education developed children, making them better citizens. There has also been the economic motive lying behind the belief that an educated edu-cated man, or woman, is better able to make a satisfactory satis-factory living than an uneducated person. Those charged with the responsibility of educating edu-cating future Americans should not lose sight of the burden that rests upon their shoulders. It is not enough that they make education popular. They must make it worthwhile, whether measured measur-ed from the standpoint of economics or of culture as perfected in individuals. Certainly, we would say nothing to prevent any boy or girl from continuing his or her education, but frankness compels the observation that, very often, particularly in reference to college and university courses, the time is wasted and the money expended lost. This is not due to the variation that may occur in students because human nature does not change sufficiently to explain the trouble. Anyway, so far as The Herald is concerned, |