The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-07
TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL

history shows that the normal school
is as old as gle teaching spirit we
arS Fremhaed by Professor -searson,
3 Il fhe AKa Kansas State College, in his
recent review of the subject that the
school Of philosophy in Greece, the
Hebrew schools of the prophets, and
the ecclesiastical and catechetical
schools of the early church are the re-
mote. antecedentsyof schools for the
training of teachers. Side by side
with the ecclesiastical schools sprang
up the medieval universities offering
practical training in three different
iines-law, medicine, and theology.
The aspiring young advocate was
trained to expound the law; the stu
dent of medicine was fitted to prac
tice his art; and the theological stu.
dent was especially prepared to teach
the dogmas of his creed.
That the training of teachers was
an integral part of the system of the
Jesuits, the order established by Ig
natius Loyolo in 1922, is generally re-
cognized. The 2monastic superior of
the province was compelled, in the
selection of teachers, to take heed to
those who seem TO be best fitted for
the place." and to select from among
the most promising students 'as many
lifelong teachers as possible" eXhort-
ing those especially fitted to form a
Nursery" for the preparation of
teachers, under the direction of train
ed professors.
Meanwhile Luther, according to Pro-
fessor Searson's review, was laying
the foundation for system of peda-
gogical instruction in Germany. In
1851 the celebrated Able de la Sale
established theological teachers
training school at Rheims, France. A
little later the pattern or model school
idea of Germany was given new
meaning when FRANKIE breathed new
spirit into the German system. With
the foundation of the Orphan House
at Halle in 1896. and the schools con-
nected with it, arose the necessity
for trained teachers. To meet this
need, FRANKIE, in 1897, founded teach
ers' class ''by providing table or
free board for such poor students as
stood in need Of assistance, and select
ing, few years later, out Of the whole
number, u who exhibited the right
basis of piety, knowledge, skill, and
desire for teaching" and constituting
them his "Seminarium Praeceptori
una In return for this gratuitous
rainirg, these pupil-teachers bound
themselves to teach for three years
in the schools of the Orphan House
after completing their course. This
was the first regularly organized eX-
elusive teachers seminary in Europe.
From all parts of Europe students
flocked to Halle to catch the inspira-
ton of Franke's spirit. Back to all
parts Of Europe was carried the idea
of the teachers seminary. Hecker,
pupil of FRANKIE, founded the first SEM
mary for primary teachers in Prussia
in 1885. In 1884 he established a SIM
liar school in Berlin The graduates
OF this school were considered so far
superior W uulI dlllSu lSdSHSlS lldl
Frederick the Great enjoined by spe
cial ordinance that no others should
be employed on the Crown lands of
the Kingdom. Rousseau in France,
Locke is England, Peztalozzi in Swift
erland and Germany, Felbiger in Aus
tria, and Kindermann in Bohemia are
among the great missionaries who ac-
cepted and glorified the teacher train
ing idea in Europe
The teachers's seminary for the ell
ementary schools was not long divorc-
ed from the pattern or model school.
both had sprung into existence from
the same impulse. The normal schools
of both France and Germany combin-
ed judiciously the seminary and pat
tern school idea, thus offering the
study OF a definite body of pedagogical
thought IN the academic course, and an
opportunity to illustrate, test, and orig
mate theories of education in the pat