The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-06
DR.. E. A. Winship Warns the
Teachers to Keep Moving
With the World.
LEAD PROCESSION"
Summer School Students
Told Not to "Wave Red
Lamp on Caboose."

"The Bible knew what Il was
doing whom Il handed down the
story about Lots wife. Anybody
who locks back gets saltsd down.
Locking back turns you into a pill.
lar ct salt"
This Is the fate which DR.. A. f. VIM
ship prophesied to the unprogressive
In a lecture on progress at the uni
versity yesterday morning. DR.. Win
ship has done wonderful work in the
field of education and is editor of the
Journal OF Education in Boston. Mass.
In DR.. Winships own words his aim
in life IL ITO keep ahead of the pro-
cession. want to be the headlight
not stand on the back platform waving
a red light to keep from being run
over"
DIR. Winship's talk was filled with
punches" which he put across to his
audience in simple, vigorous language.
Soap Bubbles and Rainbows.
u want the teachers Of America
TO b in the game. ! want them
TO welcome opportunity-to dis.
tinouish between soap bubbles and
rainbews and there never was
rainbow Of yesterday. ! want
teachers toyhe on the alert-ready
to match UP with the finaneiers.
II am satisfied that there has been
more progress financially, industrially,
commercially, in culture. morals and
education In the last seven years than
in any so years before. Ii anybody
had said seven years ago that Amer
lea could have a reserve bank sys-
- 1,cN, 20 ha
insane asylum. They would have sold
the liberty bonds If they hadn't had a
reserve bank system and a farm loan
system"
Nobody is progressive on a thing
Nobody Is progressive on a thing
in action-always going somewhere.
II you've got through, you're being pet
rified whether you are % or g."
If anybody had said seven years
ago that Montana would be bone dry
January /. 1918. or that the senate
and house would not have a bar he
would have been considered a candi-
date for an institution"
Anyone who is teaching English
who has not learned English within
the last 10 years is in danger Of look
ing very foolish
Handieappins Grandfather.
1.-THE reason why so little was
created during the last hundred
years was because people were
thinking Of their erandfathers, not
Of their esandehiIdrsti.'
"lf anyone had suggested
squeezing sugar out Of beet root
he would Nave been laughed at. .
And they thought the only root
to squeeze brains out Of was a
Greek root"
There is no limit Of vision for
the teacher today. II could not
progress I'd enlist for war-or
something. II could no moth.
ing else, Id get married"
The Growth Of Schools.
DIR. Winship spoke of the four stages
in the growth of schools. He said that
up to IS years ago the idea prevailed
that anyone who knew his subject
could be a teacher. Then IS years age
there were a few people who realized
that one ought to know how to teach
In the third stage the school was the
big idea. But now the greatest
thing that has come is the idea that
the school is for the community and
DR.. Winship told of the big work that
is being done in connection with this
idea, and continuing his morning lee
ture into the one In the afternoon en-
larsed upon the community idea of
the school.
THE community is the thought that
is going TO be III the minds Of the
educators in the cities and the rural
communities
Danger Signals for Teachers" was
the subject of the afternoon address
in which DR.. Winship sounded a grave
warning to teachers against puttering,
nagging and bossing.
IF You want to know whether you
have been puttering, if you've been nit
by what I've said you1l go to sputter-
irs. Everybody who sputters putters.
Resolve that You are going to put
your time in on things worth while"
The highest ambition l have for a
teacher is to domnate-not domineer,
said DR.. Winship in conclusion.
DR.. Winship is to deliver one more
lecture Friday afternoon at O'clock
ut the university.