normal school

normal school

English

Etymology

Calque of French école normale, so called because the norms of pedagogy are taught there.

Noun

normal school (plural normal schools)

  1. (dated) A school for training teachers, especially in mainland Europe and North America.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 122:
      He had a sister, who had been sent to America with him at the same time to live with the uncle, who would graduate from normal school this year.
    • 1993, Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, volume 15, page 83:
      In 1685 at Reims he also founded, for the training of his teachers, a school that is often considered the first normal school.

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