(b) During the past ten years Massachusetts has given all her children a minimum of seven years of schooling, while Tennessee has given her children but three years. The Massachusetts citizens produce per capita $260 per year, while the Tennessee citizens produce per capita $116 per year. (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. 2 “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. 3 “Ignorance of the law excuses no man.”—Selected. “Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”—George Washington. 4 “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. “In a Republic education is indispensable. A Republic without education is like the creature of imagination, a human being without a soul, living and moving blindly, with no just sense of the present or the future.”—Charles Sumner. “Without popular education, no government which rests upon popular action can long endure. The people must be schooled in the knowledge, and if possible in the virtues, upon which the maintenance and success of free institutions depend.”—Woodrow Wilson. 5 “Where the State has bestowed education, the man who accepts it must be content to accept it merely as charity, unless he returns it to the State in full in the shape of good citizenship.”—Theodore Roosevelt.