Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1913 — FAIL TO UTILZE SCHOOL ADVANTAGES [ARTICLE]

FAIL TO UTILZE SCHOOL ADVANTAGES

American Boys and Girls Waste Time That Should be Employed at Study. . Rensselaer parents and their children, and other citizens also, may well think about the words of Dr. N. C, Shaeffer, superintendent of public instruction in Pennsylvania, Recently, before a large gathering of educators, he called attention to the fact that there are already forty vocations to which one can not be admitted who has not had an education which is at least the, equivalent of that provided in our high schools. He then referred to the fact' that foreigners value more highly than native Americans the advantages of our free public schools and concluded with the following: “At the rate at which foreigners are coming to our shores, that their children may have the benefit of the free schools of our country, there is but one possible outcome. If the American high school boy will continue to waste his time upon fraternity functions, society pleasures and student activities which merely aim at gratification of self, while foreign boys study with unprecedented zeal at school and at home, the outcome will be that ten or twenty years hence the foreign-born boy, or the boy born of foreign parentage, will fill the places that might be occupied by boys of American descent.” Dr. Schaeffer might have cited his own situation as an illustration of a foreigner holding a position that might have been filled by an American. It is very evident from his name that he is of German parentage. If any one reading this article has not already done so, he should begin to note how many important and lucrative positions in this country are held by Germans. This is not a mere happen-so. are securing the prizes because they train for them. The German youth of the age of; the American high school student is a student in some gymnasium and he works very hard. When he graduates from this German high school he has an education that is far in advance of that gained by his American cousin in an American high school. The Germans understand quite well that there is no excellence without great labor, and they are willing to labor. The American must be like-minded or else be content to Jake a subordinate position. ’ '

Wm. F. CLARKE.

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