(c) Of the fifty-five members attending the Federal convention that made the Constitution of the United States in 1787, thirty had attended college, and twenty-six had college degrees. Of the forty State officers in Iowa in 1918, thirty were college graduates, seven were graduates of high schools, and only three had less than a high school education.
(d) The child with no schooling has one chance in 150,000 of performing distinguished services; with elementary education he has four times the chance; with high school education he has eighty-seven times the chance; with college education he has eight hundred times the chance.
(e) Every boy and every girl should stick to his school work until he at least graduates from a fully accredited high school.
“Law can do nothing without morals.”—Benjamin Franklin.
“Through the whole of life and the whole system of duties, much the strongest moral obligations are such as were never the results of our option.”—Edmund Burke.
“To do evil that good may come of it, is for the bungler in politics as well as in morals.”—Benjamin Franklin.
“Duty is not collective; it is personal.”—Calvin Coolidge.
“Ignorance of the law excuses no man.”—Selected.
“Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”—George Washington.
“The thorough education of all classes of people is the most efficacious means of promoting the prosperity of the Nation. The material interests of its citizens, as well as their moral and intellectual culture, depend upon its accomplishment.”—Robert E. Lee.