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Show Achievement Is Easiest in Field of Education Among all the -callings and professions profes-sions available to young men, teaching teach-ing offers the shortest and easiest road to a place at the top of the ladder, lad-der, according to computations made from a study of "Who's Who" by Freling Foster. "My purpose was to find an Index to the opportunities for real achievement achieve-ment existing in different kinds of work," he explains in Collier's Weekly. Week-ly. "Therefore I tabulated the varying vary-ing number of years that elapse between be-tween graduation and inclusion in Who's Who, for the various recognized recog-nized occupational classes." His final figures show that educators educa-tors require an average of eighteen years to be recognized. The similar period for scientists is twenty years, writers twenty-two years, editors twenty-four years, physicians and surgeons twenty-five years, artists twenty-six years, lawyers thirty years, and business men thirty-one years. |