Napa High School - Napanee Yearbook (Napa, CA)

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The Value of an Education The greatest achievement of our country during its history is beyond question its free public school system provided at public expense. Everyone today is willing to regard as self-evident, the statement that a good education is the natural birth right of every American child. As young people, however. let us not fail to appreciate the heritage that is ours and understand the value of an education. From the material side alone careful investigations tell us that every day in high school is worth 325.00 to each student, while each day in college is worth more than 855.00 This is more than the average boy or girl can earn by leaving school and going to work. Not long ago a committee investigating many thousands of people found that a high school graduate's chance to win distinction is nearly three times as great as that of an eighth grade graduate and a college graduate's chance is ten times that of the high school graduate. But our life means more than getting money, no matter how necessary or important that may be. One of our most valuable assets is personality-and education develops personality. Our literary, social and scientific studies are the soil in which personality matures. They hasten its development and give it depth, power, and beauty, for through them we learn of the processes and laws of nature which-after all-are the processes and laws of God. If one is to reach his highest possibilities. his spiritual nature must be developed. This end is accomplished of course through communion with the Divine and through the cultivation of the emotions and feelings and through contact with other people. It is also developed through study of the arts and sciences, of history and literature. The soul is, after all, the thing supreme and of enduring worth, and it should therefore be given every chance of cultivation, for education has a moral. a religious and a spiritual aspect. Our schools are realizing more and more their opportunities and were never so alert to the necessity of instruction in principles of good conduct and morality and right living. From both the material and spiritual point of view, then, an education pays. The knowledge and power are a part of one's working capital. Education develops personal power and gives life and direction to one'spurposes. Itennobles ideals, increases happiness and multiplies opportunities for service. It enlarges one's interest, enriches the mind. and deepens the sympathies. The wise boy or girl will stay as long as possible in the high school and try as hard as he can to get as much college training as he is able. Thus he will be better able to earn his livelihood, and he surely will be happier and more useful to the world. Principal, Earle Crawford. Plmel

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Norman Gaddini