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.v this, he should familiarize himself with the growth of the men- :
  tal powers, perception, memory, imagination, the faculty of j
{ thought, and should know, too, what studies are best suited to 5
  secure their easy, natural and harmonious development. The 1
{ teacher who proceeds after this manner may be said to employ ‘
j a good method, not tentative merely, for it has the warrant of ;
L common sense, and has its foundation laid in something like ‘
_ ·scientific certainty. And ‘ r
, F0w‘ihZy.—In addition to method may be noticed the art of `
l school keeping. The young and inexperienced teacher needs, i
` on beginning the performance of his untried task, to have some `
g notions of school management, government and discipline. ·
I The school is a community, and, like any other community ,
` wisely controlled, must have on the part of its rulers tact, pru- i
i dence and decision. The Normal School is the place where ‘
these qualities, together with zeal in the cause of popular edu-
cation and a love for his profession, should be developed in _
the mind and heart of the young teacher, if he would be a
po wer when he himself comes to direct the lives and mould the .
characters of others.
FUI/tZy.——'l`eaching exercises take a prominent place among
‘ the duties of the Normal School. The pupil-teacher ought
I himself to teach others—in the absence of a model school. his
fellow pupils-—the lessons or parts of lessons he has himself
been taught.
S/a¢Z7tZy.—-Furtlier, the Normal School has or ought to have A
for its task»so far as the individual teacher is concerned, its
supreme task—the development of the future teacher of force
—moral force. lts ultimate aim should be to make educators,
, not teachers simply. And, finally, the Normal School should
i fLl1'IllSll social training to the teacher, who shall, in the full
J sense, be qualified to make the common school what it is in-
i tended to be, a preparation for citizenship; and here rests the
l chief value of the Normal School to the State; and here rests
I the supreme value of the common school to the State as well.
{ Briefly, then, to sum up the functions of the Normal School, it
has for its purpose——first, to give the pupil an acquaintance
l with the subjects taught in the common schools; second, a ·
knowledge of other branches fitting him for a higher and more