Normal school
A normal school or teachers college is an
educational institution for training
teachers. Its purpose is to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name. In 1685,
Saint John Baptist de La Salle, founder of the
Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, founded what is generally considered the first normal school, the Ècole Normale, — that is, a school whose purpose is to train teachers — in
Reims. The term normal school is now archaic in all but a few countries. In
New Zealand, for example, normal schools are affiliated with
teachers colleges. According to the
Oxford English Dictionary, normal schools in the
United States and
Canada trained
primary school teachers, while in
Europe, normal schools educated primary,
secondary and
tertiary-level teachers.
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normal school
Noun
1. a two-year school for training elementary teachers
(synonym) teachers college
(hypernym) junior college
normal school
Synonyms and related words:
academe, academia, alma mater, college, college of engineering, community college, degree-granting institution, four-year college, graduate school, institute of technology, ivied halls, journalism school, junior college, law school, medical school, multiversity, normal, postgraduate school, school of communications, school of education, two-year college, university, university college, varsity
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
normal school
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