The Public Primary School System of France; With Special Reference to the Training of Techers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...is yet much below the plan of the normal school of the Convention. Although undoubtedly far more practical in its actual work, it nevertheless lacked much of the breadth of its famous predecessor. The omission of history is perhaps its most striking feature. This school at Strassburg met with immediate success, so much, in fact, that its influence rapidly extended outside its own department. The department of the Upper Rhine soon made arrangements to send pupils to be trained at Strassburg. M. Guizot thus testifies to the success of the Strassburg school: "The superiority of the public school in the academy of Strassburg is striking, and the conviction of the country, as just as it is general, attributes this above all to the existence of the normal school." 3 The return of the monarchy, however, put a check on the spread of this idea by turning the efforts along this line in another direction. It encouraged the union Other Schools. of several classes under one teacher and several assistants, with the idea of " training a certain number of young people in the art of teaching." 4 This is the same plan that was adopted again in 1850, at that time with the idea not 1 Guizot. Rapport au Roi, Mar. 2, 1833, Gr. T, p. 435. 2 Allard, Ecoles Normales Primaires, p. 3. 3 Op. cit., Gr. I, p. 436. 4 Ordonnance Royale, Feb. 29, 1816, Art. 39, Gr. I, p. 248. only of preventing the foundation of new schools, but even of killing those already in existence. Fortunately, at this juncture some of the academies took up the burden that the State had cast aside, and again one can trace the influence of the school at Strassburg. The academies of Metz and Nancy established normal schools for primary teachers at Helfedange and Bar-le-Duc respectively. The first o...