Show SIXTEEN MILLION AMERICAN Ar SCHOOL This Thlu Is IB a country of or equal opportunities S unities and ono one of the tho greatest op ur that It offers Is la that of or ed cd education edS S Education I the tho way Wa S for fir future success by the Individual for tor efficient service The advances In education durin the pasi pa 1 fow few decades nave have been remarkable rem in ni quality Quam and quantity A consideration I of ot educational statistics for the score of or years will 1111 thin 1 statement as far Car as measurable me progress ress Is 18 concerned Twenty Teat years earEt ago au authe ag agthe I the number of or school teachers In the th United States was ned find the th umber number n of or pupils In the schools wan Wa loo o to 2000 An Jn enormous increase oc characterizes c tho the current More loro than lhnn half h lC a million teachers achors tf of ot G Goth f both oth b sexes Boxes are aro art now no engaged in in instructing s scholars In other r words the magnitude of tho the American I school system IB is demonstrated by b tho statement s that It has more mor than dou doubled doubled bled b led In less than a quarter of or a cen can t urr Tho The educational bill of the thern hi hiI a l United rn led States now How reaches the round I annual a sum of as r j against t the t he approximate sum of 0 In i n 1888 It Ills is Interesting to loam learn that tha t Philadelphia will wll have havo nearly as many man f pupils in Its schools next week us U 11 5 there thore t were teachers in lit all nil the states state S and territories two decades de ago Philadelphia Telegraph |