Salem State Normal School Yearbook, 1930 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Salem State Normal School Yearbook, 1930Colony, and was largely instrumental in founding the State Normal School at Bridge water. In this connection it is of interest to nore that at a meeting, held at Hanover on September 3, 1838, the topic was, A Normal School in Plymouth County, and the speakers were Horace Mann, Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams.With the coming of the Board of Education in 1837, two new champions of the cause of teacher training appeared. Horace Mann, as president of the Senate, signed the at creating the Board of Education. He gave up a career in the law and in poli tics and accepted the secretary - ship provided in the Act.An interested observer of what had been going on was Edmund Dwight, a Boston merchant, who donated for the cause of education. Dwight was appointed a member of the first Board of Education, and immediately gave tangible evidence of his belief that normal schools were essential to the improvement of public education in Massachusetts. The Board of Education held its first meeting on June 29, 1837.Here begins the interesting story of the actual establishment of State Normal Schools in Massachusetts. No more interesting chapter can be written in the annals of American Education.Four approximate dates mark the evolution of the State Normal Schools in Massachusetts. These dates are: 1839, 1854, 1874, and 1895.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.