"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . and returned to make hisschool foremost in all the excellences of the method. Enthusiastically adopted by two of the state Normal schools,earnestly presented in the institutes, and by graduates of the nor- ( 283 ) OLE COUMY AXD ITS PEOPLE mal schools in their teaching, the method began to be widely events contributed to this result. In 1869, the first as-sistant principal of the AVestfield school was selected to reopenthe Connecticut State Normal school at New Britain, and, thoughhe aided in selecting some c
"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . and returned to make hisschool foremost in all the excellences of the method. Enthusiastically adopted by two of the state Normal schools,earnestly presented in the institutes, and by graduates of the nor- ( 283 ) OLE COUMY AXD ITS PEOPLE mal schools in their teaching, the method began to be widely events contributed to this result. In 1869, the first as-sistant principal of the AVestfield school was selected to reopenthe Connecticut State Normal school at New Britain, and, thoughhe aided in selecting some competent graduates of the AVestfieldschool for assistants in the Connecticut school, who, with others,did much to introduce the method into that school and into theother schools of the state, ]\Ir. Greenough decided to remain atWestfield. In 1871, however, he was elected to open as principalthe Rhode Island Normal school at Providence, and securedgraduates of the Westfield school as assistants. Thus the methodwas rooted in the normal schools of Rhode Island and Connecti-. School Building, 1869 cut, and by graduates of these and of the Massachusetts schoolswas introduced into the state normal schools and many otherschools of Northern New England. The graduates of the West-field school were also in demand for the Oswego Normal school,for other schools in New York and for positions of influence inthe western states. When Mr. Dickinson became secretary of the board of edu-cation, in 1877, leaving INIr. Scott principal of the Westfieldschool, the spread of the principles and method of analytic-objective teaching, as Mr. Dickinson termed it, received new im-pulse. He increased the number and the efficiency of the in- ( 284 ) STATE NOBMAL SCHOOL stitutes and made them potent in training the teachers of thestate to a knowledge and to the practice of better methods ofteaching. It was his custom to open each institute with as clear,concise, and simple statement of the principles of teach
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