Abstract
Schools for teachers in North America began in 1839 with Normal School in Lexington, Mass., now the State Teachers College at Framington, Mass.1 At Bridgewater, Mass., in 1846 the first building for teacher-training purposes was erected; it was dedicated by Horace Mann (1796-1859) with this dramatic sentence: Coiled in this institution, as in spring, there is vigor whose uncoiling may wheel the spheres! The word normal comes from the Greek through the French, and means a carpenter's square. The implication is a pattern; the school proposes to give training in successful patterns of classroom teaching. The mother of Normal Schools in the Southern States was Peabody Normal School at Nashville, Tennessee. This institution operated
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