In 1910, of nineteen million pupils of public and private schools in this country, only one million were securing a secondary, and less than a third of a million a higher, education.

Here are some figures gathered by the Russell Sage Foundation in its recent survey of public school management.

The report covers 386 of the larger cities of the Union.

Out of every 100 children who enter the schools, 45 drop out before the sixth year; that is, before they have learned to read English.

Only 25 of the remainder graduate and enter the high schools, and of these but 6 complete the course.
The expense of a superior education, including upkeep during the increasing number of years required, is rising many times more rapidly than the income of the average man.