Author: Samuel Elias Staples

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-07

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9780266413080

Excerpt from Normal Schools and Their Origin: A Paper Read at a Regular Meeting of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, June 5th, 1877 But, to Rev. Samuel R. Hall belongs the credit of being the father of normal schools in America, the first to establish on this continent a school for the Special training and prepara tion oi teachers. Schools oi this kind were ad vocated as early as 1816 by Professor Denison Olmstead while a tutor in Yale College, in an address delivered on the state of education in Connecticut, in which he endeavored to show that the great defect in our school education was the ighorance and incompetency of the teachers, and the only remedy was a seminary for their special instruction and training for the work of their profession. Other gentlemen deeply interested in the cause 01 popular educa tion, had from time to time before the establish ment of our state normal schools in 1838 made similar suggestions, and Professor Ticknor in the North American Review [or 1827 advocated the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.