. The school physiology journal . ked him how he madethe calculation. He said, You findthe value of a boystime at school by sub-tracting the earningsof a life of uneducatedlabor from the earn-ings of a life of edu-cated labor. Thenhe gave me a calcula-tion that I have usedthis year before everyinstitute, for I amanxious to get it intothe daily papers, tohave it carried to everyschoolroom and putupon every blackboard,so that the pupils maycarry it home and dis-cuss it with their par-ents. He said : If anuneducated man earns$ a day for threehundred days in a yearhe does very well; andif he k
. The school physiology journal . ked him how he madethe calculation. He said, You findthe value of a boystime at school by sub-tracting the earningsof a life of uneducatedlabor from the earn-ings of a life of edu-cated labor. Thenhe gave me a calcula-tion that I have usedthis year before everyinstitute, for I amanxious to get it intothe daily papers, tohave it carried to everyschoolroom and putupon every blackboard,so that the pupils maycarry it home and dis-cuss it with their par-ents. He said : If anuneducated man earns$ a day for threehundred days in a yearhe does very well; andif he keeps it up for forty years, he will earn $r-5o x 300 x 40, or$ 18,000. An educated man is not generally paidby the day, but by the month and by the year. Oh ! little loveliest lady mine,If you will strike an average of the earnings of What shall I send for your valentine?educated men, beginning with the President of Summer and flowers are far away ;the United States, who earns $50,000 a year, the Gloomy old Winter is king today ;. works with his hands at unskilled labor putsforth as much muscular effort as the man whoearns his livelihood by his wits and if $22,000 represents the value of timethat a boy spends at school in getting an edu-cation, what is the value of a day spent atschool ? The average school life of every boyand girl in Massachusetts is seven years of 200days each ; let us say that it takes four yearsmore to get a good education. Reckoningeleven years of 200 days each, you will find thatthe 2,200 days at school are equal to $22,000,and a simple division on the blackboard willbring it home to the comprehension of everyboy that each day at school, properly spent, must be worth $10. One director askswhether it is a viola-tion of the compulsorylaw if a farmer keepsat home his eleven-year-old boy to plow,because it costs $ day to get some manto do the work. Whilehe is putting $ his own pockethe is robbing that boyof $10. in the shape offutur
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