Volume 15 , Issue 29

Normal Schools

Normal schools were established across the country in the late 1800's and early 1900's for the purpose of training public school teachers to provide free public education.

The University of Central Oklahoma used to be called Territorial Normal School. Here's something Father of the American Normal School. He was influential in the passage of a bill creating the first State Board of Education in Massachusetts.

Horace Mann was named the first secretary on June 29, 1937. Mann said at the dedication of the Lexington school "I believe Normal Schools to be a new instrumentality in the advancement of the race. I believe that, without them, Free Schools themselves would be shorn of their strength and their healing power and would at length become mere charity schools and thus die out in fact and in form."

Normal Schools were usually a two-year program to teach high-school graduates to become elementary schoolteachers. Back then they needed teachers badly.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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