The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-08
RATE OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.
RATES OF ADVERTIsING.
WEST yIRGIsIA NORMAL school,

WEST VIRGINIA NORMAL SCHOOL.
An InstItution for the Special Train
ing OF Teaehers.-.A FIrst-cIaSs Aead-
emy for the Education sOf Young
Ladies' and Gentlemen.
As Normal Schools are OF compara-
lively recent origin, not many persons
are familiar with their purposes and
adaptations. It may be well, thersfore,
to present these in brief statement
A Normal School is school in which
the methods of instruction are intended
to serve as norm, or model for imita-
tion; an institution for educating Teach
ers, not only by precept but also by ex-
ample. But il is evident that If such a
school be properly and ably conducted,
1t will afford superior advantages of
education to others besides teachers, in
all the branches embraced in its course
of instruction. And this has been prac-
tlcallY ascertained to be the fact
Hence a Normal School is now de-
signed, 1. As an Institution for the ed
ucation and training of Teachers; and
2. As an Academy for the thorough In
struction of Young Men and Young
Ladies in all the branches taught in
common schools, and also in such Rd-
vanced studies as may be added to the
course of instruction.
Mere knowledge of the branches
taught in schools is not qualification
fol teacher. Teaching is an art, as
difficult as it is important, and must be
learned as other arts are learned, by
studying its principles and closely OBJ
serving their practical application by
those skilled in the art. To afford the
best facilities for such study and OBJ
servation, and also to disseminate the
latest improvements in the practice of
the teachers profession, Normal
Schools have been established; and
they have been found to be so efficient
that they have taken their place among
the permanent and Indispensable ap-
pliances of general education. Teach
ers instructed in them are always pre-
ferred to others, and invariably COM
mand higher salaries for their services.
In some of the Northern States a nor
NAL training is virtually made a re-
quisite for obtaining position in the
more prominent and remunerative
schools; and events indicate that it will
not be long before such a training will
be made by law a necessary qualiflca-
ton for all teachers in the States where
the free school system exists.
1t is the testimony of all who have
had anything to do in putting the COM
mon school system into operation in
this State, that the most serious diff
Guilty is found in the Lack of a sufficient
number of properly qualified Teachers.
Public sentiment as to the necessary
qualifications for Teacher has recent
ly undergone a very decided change.
The people are no longer willing to
place the intellectual training ftheir
children in the hands of ignorant and
uncultured vagrants, who only claimed
ability to maintain enforced obedience
to arbitrary rules by the free use of the
CATO nine-tails, the heavy ferule, or
the rugged shillaleh. Under the new
regime, the olden-time "school-mas-
farlN haiFrd ranfdlU AfGrarf1a1 aS
guides of intellect, and professional
Teachers who have thorough knowl-
edge OF the branches TO be taught and
haye studied the art of teaching, and
the best methods of conducting the
daily exercises of the schooI-room, are
fast taking their place. But the num-
ber of such Teachers in this State, is en-
tirely inadequate 10 supply the demand.
Hence, vast amount of money is an
nually thrown away upon lingering
representatives of the ancient peda-
gogues. Besides, thousands of dollars
that might be kept at home, If we had
enough well qualified native Teachers,
are every year carried out of the State
by Teachers from abroad. The neces-
sity aud importance, therefore, of Nor
NAL Schools will scarcely be denied by
any Intelligent man who desires to pro-
mote the welfare of the people and the
prosperity of the State. %
The Regents of West Virginia Nor.
NAL School located at Fairmont, having
obtained a charter under the general
corporation law of this State, aud hav-
ing been aided by a liberal appropria-
tion made by the Legislature, intend
to make the school a permanent Insti-
tuition, and so conduct it that IL will
rank in point of excellence with SINH
lar institutions in the Northern States.
1t is the design of the School, not only
to train treachers in all the improved
methods of instruction adopted in the
best schools of the North, but also to
afford academic advantages to students
sufficiently advanced to enter its course
of study.
The first session ofthe School will be-
gin on the First Monday of May, 1861,
and continue until the Fourth day of
October, with a vacation from the 18th
of June to the Sth OF July, making a
school term of 20 weeks. The tuition
will be $50 for the session, or 81 week
for less time. Boarding in town and
the vicinity can be had at from s., 50 to
IS, 90 per week
1t is the intention to secure the SER
vices OF able and experienced Profess
ors, and to teach in the most thorough
manner and in accordance with the
most improved methods, all the branch
es, including bookkeeping, of an Eng
lish education.
For further information address
Board of Directors, West Virginia Nor
NAL School. - @
FairHaont, Vest H1., April lst, 1856.