DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 181, 21 October 1927, Page 14

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

WHY GO TO SCHOOL? (Copyright, 1927) y ■pkß. JOHN F. NIFFSINGER, of Washington, D.C., has prepared some interesting statistics in regard to schooling. I have often been asked by young men and young women whether it pays to go to school and college. They are anxious to get into business and could make good money. So much schooling looks to them like a waste of time. > . Those who look at life from the right perspective and are anxious to do the best themselves, on the whole, are reminded that the years spent in C ° lle The a u e ntrained a m e a d n begins to earn almost ten years before the college He is anxious to make money, but it is the old story of the hare and the tortoise As soon as the prepared man overtakes him he gets more irrfnlmrvents *as well as honour out of life, to say nothing of the satisfaction. The untrained man reached his productivity in his early twenties, the high school man in middle life. But the college man does not get to the Zenit L h oo°king at* Hfe S 'tnlhe long run and on the average, which is the only slnsible way for anybody to look at anything, the years spent in s^ ool ™ S %g r e'ss 1 oration there is one class of men that is being crowded off the earth, and that is the unskilled labourer This is an age of machinery, and the man who can handle a machine and properly direct its labours has the advantage over a man who has only his hands. Let the bov or girl therefore think twice betore giving up school. As a rule there is nothing better to do with the years between 15 and 25 than to put them in school. Schools may not be all they be, but they are the best institutions we have and they are getting better all the time.