The Normal School a Success by Richard Edwards

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jul 2, 1908

The Normal School a Success

By Richard Edwards

THE normal school has on the whole attained a noble success in the United States. To use a less forcible expression for this fact, would be an excessive affectation of a misplaced moderation. Some of the evidences of this success have been indicated. They are found in the multiplication of the schools, in the demand for the services of the teachers educated in them. They are also found in the introduction of normal departments into colleges, academies, and seminaries. They are found in the confidence with which the public regard the schools generally. They are found in the genuine and substantial progress in education which they have done so much to promote. To ignore this great fact, much more to deny it, would be not only unpolitic, but unjust.—Richard Edwards.