The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-10-12
Or. WINSHIP GIVES fine
ADDRESS AT HIGH SCHOOL

The lecture of DR., A. E. winship OF
Boston given last evening in the as
sembly room of the Central high school
showed that such ideas as were ex-
pressed by him We're the result OF a
whole life time OF experience and not
mere ideas brought To his attention by
! chance. Although the audience was
rather small, il was very apprecia-
tive one
After a selection by the high school
orchestra, Principal Kelley introduced
the speaker. DIR. Winship. Dr. Win
ship stated that his visit TO the copper
country had been a very enjoyable
one. and that he had enjoyed seeing
every phase OF the work done in the
mines OF this section.
Il do not believe that there is any
other place where I'm the same area,
and of the same population. one can
find the same number of high school
buildings as modern and as well
equipped in every way as in the upper |
peninsula" said DIR. Winship.
1t is part of my creed that the
schools are making a great mistake i'm
not presenting to the people at large,
H. general way, the educational sit
uation. Every community that l have
ever known has had in it few men
who seem to take extreme delight i'm
telling the world that the schools are
not as good as they used to be. Up ,
% the present time | have not found
a man anywhere who made any state
ment bordering on that line at all, who
knew anything on what he was taking
about
Or. Winship's subject dealt mainly 3
with the modern boy and girl. This 8
S any age of new extraordinarily 3
lew things. / have been around your B
mines little in the last four days and 9
have been up here once before, and
very single thing that | have looked I
nto this time, that was new, was un-
lreamed of when l was up here six
ears ago. 1t is the great noble new L
less of these later days that interest
ne"
Or. Winship spoke of the new meth a
d of grading children deficient in
mental powers, not chronologically but
Intellectually. He said a child should Y
lot be graded according to his age but
ccording TO the intellectual powers
displayed by the child. Speaking to ?,
he teachers, Dr. Winship cautioned
hem not to take life too seriously. or
axe the children i'm the lower grades G
DO seriously. \
The period between six and twelve
ears of age should be devoted to Civ
lg the boy manly recognition and the 50,
hrase used by Mr.. Winship to illus al
rate his ideas, is self explanatory,
Don't call boy Willie after he is l.
ears old" 8,
The last period of a boys lifc be- Il
IRE he passed his eighteenth birth
ny and became for all practical pur-
uses a man, were regarded by DR..
'inship as of just as much impor- :
lnce as the first six. After his twelfth =
rthday, responsibilities should be =
lrown upon The boy. =
I'm conclusion the lecturer said: THE ::
me has come when the school needs
get the parents together and TO con- ?,
r with them and talk to them about
lie responsibilities entailed i'm the olu-
ltion of the modern boys and girls \ 81
lange in the ideas of educating and co
Using children. of making real men
10 women of them, has come and is
adually forcing itself upon the at n
ntion of parents. Formerly par II
ITS avoided all suggestions a TO the
Using Of their children, but i'm later 10
ar greater interest is being dis 9,
aged I'm this direction"