"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . the cause of good learning wededicate it. To the care and benediction of heaven we commendit. May it more than answer the sanguine hopes of its projectors,in furnishing teachers of a high order for many generations. The building was sixty-two by forty feet, two stories high,presenting an entrance at each end under high piazza roofs sup- ( 275 ) OVB COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE ported by louic cohiiims. The Normal school Avas to occupy thesecoinl story, the teachers, and pupils desks being in the centralroom about forty feet s
"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . the cause of good learning wededicate it. To the care and benediction of heaven we commendit. May it more than answer the sanguine hopes of its projectors,in furnishing teachers of a high order for many generations. The building was sixty-two by forty feet, two stories high,presenting an entrance at each end under high piazza roofs sup- ( 275 ) OVB COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE ported by louic cohiiims. The Normal school Avas to occupy thesecoinl story, the teachers, and pupils desks being in the centralroom about forty feet square. At each end of this room a dooropened into a recitation room. The first story Avas similar in itsarrangement of rooms and was to be occupied by the school of thecentral district as an experimental or model school. In con-sideration of the town occupying these rooms with one of itsschools, AYestfield had appropriated $1,500 to the building S. Kowe was appointed principal, a graduate of Bow-doin college and a teacher of considerable experience. The whole. First Normal School BuildingDedicated September, 3, 1846 number of applicants was 55. Of these, 47 — 20 young men and27 young women,—were admitted. The Normal school thus fairly started on its successful careerhad much to do. Its teachers and its students had all the enthu-siasm of those who are setting out on a voyage of discovery orentering untrodden ways on an exploring expedition. The writ-ings of Pestalozzi and his followers were studied. Descriptionsof German schools were carefully read as they had been vividlyoutlined by Horace Mann and by others who had visited these ( 276 ) STATE NORMAL SCHOOL schools. Ideals were formed, changed, improved. That theteacher should teach, and not the text-book, was affirmed, but themethod of teaching the several studies required in the commonschools was to be wrought out. While in acquiring knowledge,the traditional text book method was continued in the Normalschool,
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