I answer briefly, that it was my aim, and it would be my aim again, to make better teachers, and especially, better teachers for our common schools; so that those primary seminaries, on which so many depend for their education, might answer, in a higher degree, the end of their institution. Yes, to make better teachers; teachers who would understand, and do their business better; teachers who should know more of the nature of children, of youthful developments, more of the subject to be taught, and more of the true methods of teaching; who would teach more philosophically, more in harmony with the natural development of the young mind, with a truer regard to the order and connection in which the different branches of knowledge should be presented to it, and, of course, more successfully.<\/p>\n
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Cyrus Peirce, 1851<\/p>\n
(founder of the first Normal School, Lexington, MA, 1839.)<\/p>\n
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Source: Borrowman, Merle, ed. 1965. Teacher Education in America: A documentary history. <\/em>New York: Teachers College Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I answer briefly, that it was my aim, and it would be my aim again, to make better teachers, and especially, better teachers for our common schools; so that those primary seminaries, on which so many depend for their education, might answer, in a higher degree, the end of their institution. Yes, to make better … Continue reading Early Normal School<\/span>