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Show College Education Must Be Evaluated in. Terms of Satisfaction in Life By M. C. ELMER, University of Minnesota. Flow much is a college education worth? A generation ago that question was answered in terms of dollars and cents. Field agents of colleges col-leges and universities told prospective students how many times their earning capacity would be increased by the securing of a college degree. The situation has changed in the past 25 years. ' In a rectfnt study of women in clerical and secretarial work in Minneapolis Min-neapolis it was found that after working for five years, the average wage for women with grade school and business training was $86.60 a month. Women with high school and no special business training averaged $98.18 a month; with high school and business training, $107. OS a month. But women with university education and business training averaged only SOS. 73 a month. In the case of women who had special secretarial training train-ing at the university, the average was higher, reaching $111.42 a -month. Where the college education does not give specific technical training its value cannot be measured in terms of money. It must be evaluated in terms of enjoyment and satisfaction in life. -. |