Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-13
EDUCATIONAL MEETING.
Dr. Winship Talks ON the "Amer
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DR.. Winship, whom all friends of edu-
ton delight to honor, has been spending
a week in Pasadena with his old-time
friend, Superintendent Monroe. Be.
tween them, these gentlemen provided
delightful entertainment of intellectual
good things at the Wilson school house
on yesterday morning. Many of Pasa-
dena's most cultured people, all her
teachers, and many from Los Angeles.
Monrovia and Pomona were present.
After the lectures and talks, score of
visitors were invited to the Painter
House to meet DR.. Winship. An in
formal banquet and concert followed.
and both found hearty aids in their car
rying out and in.
The Doctor cannot see how any man
not anchored beyond his strength can
live in bleak New England while genial
California beckons him. He has often
lectured on California and has sent
many recruits.
At the morning meeting Ms. Burr,
well-known to Los Angeles teachers,
gave one of her pleasant talks.
Mr.. Monroe, in his energetic, hopeful
style, gave some stirring remarks on the
essence and soul of teaching, inspiring
listeners, as he always does, to nobler
purpose and higher effort.
DR.. Winship discoursed on the boy in
school and out, and helpfully de-
lineated the youth who holds the future
in his hands. He especially pleaded
for the trying age when the once-endless
question-asker ceases to demand informa-
ton; when he knows more to the square
inch than he ever will again; when he
knows more to tell the world than q
planetary system would tell him. He
argued against babying the boy at this
stretching age, and pleaded for early
recognition Of, and leaning on, his man
hood, 'if you would have your boy
manly and self-reliant."
Leading up to the treatment of the
boy in school, the Doctor gave the out
lines of some large ideas on the outlook
of the nations of today.
England is the country that absorbs
all other countries, or would do 80. She
has greed of land and treasure, but she
cannot nurture o philosophy that viii
not be a scott. Germany may try to
annex lands, but she has no grip on
them. She can stay at home, though,
and do the worlds thinking and singing.
Philosophy is her guerdon, and thought
gives her power. France can not take
land or create PHILOSOPHERS that will
graft themselves on her soil but she can
set fashions for the world in many ways.
America has no philosophy, no fashions,
no policy. She is unique. She will dis
cover Pasadena for health, Comstock
for wealth, and invite all the world in to
partake. But philosophy she must
have to make her OF the best, and this
must be evolved from the common
people by the schools. Shop and society
are the factors of American life. Four
fifths of the American people are shop
people, earning their living by the sweat
of their brow. The other fraction pur-
sues relaxation or amsuement.
Both shop ana society are demoraliz-
ing in tendency. Most of the workers
curse the fate that bids them toll Most
of the non-workers fancy that some
one is trying to curtail their privileges,
Home, school and church are the
forces to regulate these things. Rhythm,
discipline and purpose are the lines of
action. As the home go feebly does it's
work, as the church so often fails in it's
mission, the school is the focusing point
of all effort. The school must work out
the boys salvation-teacbz him to stand
on his own feet and make him blend
himself with the world. 1t is not the
business OF the school to made things
easy for him or save him, but to
strengthen him and make duty pleasant
for him. In short, to use the Doctors
own phrasing-"to make the boy loyal
to destiny, ITO be reconciled even to failure
after he has done his best; to be willing
to believe that faithful work, contrary to
general aphorism, is not always visibly
paid; to cay with Browning:
"All the worlds coarse thumb
And finger failed to plumb.
ALI that could never be-
All men ignored in me-
This-was worth to God"