The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-04-16
DR.. WINSHIP TELLS OF
EDUCATION GROWTH

the last ten years than in any thirty
years before that, DR.. A. E. Winship,
editor of the Journal of Education
of Boston, addressed the teachers
and others interested in education
at Berkeley, California.
Winship's address bristled with
startling statements, many OF which
were disturbing to a sense of self
satisfaction. There is no possibility
of standing still these days, in edu-
cation or anything else, he pointed
out. with the exception of the
theory of heat, we can't teach any
science as it was taught ten years
ago." declared the educator.
Speaking with clearness and vigor
in spite of his 80 years, Winship
told of the first speech he made in
California 81 years ago. The first
shock to CALIFORNIA; pride in her
schools came when Winship stated
that he had in former years gone
over the country telling the people
of the fine schools of this state, but
that today he would have to revise
this statement. The leading state
in education today is a southern state
he declared.
perhaps you would be surprised
to learn that North Carolina stands
at the froat in educational progress
at the present time." said Winship,
"North Carolina in education makes
Massachusetts, and California look
like 80 cents" he continued.
''The reason for North Cardinals
progress is found in her support of
education and health. Her Senate
and House have unanimously voted
25.0O0,O 900 for public education.
The salaries paid the teachers of
North Carolina are higher than those
paid in California. No one dares
vote against educational support
there. They know education pays.
The wealth of North Carolina has in
creased more in a period of two and
a half years since 1920 than in two
and a half centuries prior to that
year.
eve need to realize that education
is going ahead and we have got to
90 along with it. | pity anyone who
doesn't want to go ahead. Such a
person had better not go to North
Carolina. A person has to go like
sin today or he is standing STILL
"What | would like to have teach
ers realize is that they are no longer
teachers of algebra, grammar, history
and so on, but teachers of boys and
girls, that the schools exist for boys
and girls who are to be made men
and women capable of meeting emer-
gencies."
Winship told of some of the &C
complishments made in recent years
by people who are making discov-
cries, people who are doing things
"never done before" He mentioned
Ann Cannon of Cambridge who has
~catalogued 22O, 900 stars where Is
years before but 5000 were known.
Her work filled 10 big volumes.
"With the telescope camera three
billion stars have been photographed.
Up to three weeks ago astronomers
told us the size of the universe, but
now one Of them has discovered an
other universe beyond this one"
The marvellous transformation in
the coal fields was told by the
speaker. Instead of making coke out
of the waste coal, coke is now only a
by-product in the making of coal tar
preparations which include more
than 200 brilliant dyes, aspirin and
many other useful things.
Winship called attention to the
encouraging fact that in the past 10
years the high school attendance in
the United States has doubled. He
said he did not wish to speak dis
p~aragingly of certain parts of the
country where there has been con-
siderable ~illiteracy. There are no
Drawer people than the people in the
mountain regions of West Virginia
and North Carolina. In the world
war, after the armies of the allies
had been unable to break the Hin
denburg line, it was a battalion of
mountain boys from the sections
mentioned that first pierced the iron
wall and brought about the final de-
feat of Germany, Winship pointed
out.
The educator concluded his address
with a striking illustration. tSeience
indicates" he stated, ''that snakes
and birds originally had a common
progenitor. A careful examination
of their skeletons would cen to in
dictate this possibility. Now, in time
there was a division when some Of
these progenitors were satisfied to
squirm and hiss, but something
stirred in others that made them