下面是从牛津英语辞典里摘的有关normal的释意。
nL-kBW Ed> 7W\aX*] 3. Of, relating to, or intended for the training of teachers, esp. in Continental Europe and N. America. Chiefly in normal school. Now
hist. 7e`h,e= 5Lm<3:7Q+ In N. America, normal schools were for training primary school teachers. In Continental Europe, different normal schools also trained teachers at secondary and tertiary levels.
S?LUSb 0@PI=JZ% 1826 C. ANDERSON Let. 29 Aug. in H. Anderson Life & Lett. C. Anderson (1854) viii. 276 Colonel Abrahamson..has been with us all this afternoon, and has shewn us the Normal School, the institution for the deaf and dumb, and the lithographic press. 1834 Edinb. Rev. July 491 The system of Primary Schools, which the French..have..denominated Normal. 1857 Illinois House Jrnl. 17 Feb. 970 Senate bill for ‘An act for the establishment and maintenance of a normal university’ was taken up... There shall be established in said university..a normal college for the education of teachers of common schools. 1888 Nat. Educ. Assoc. U.S. Addr. & Proc. 1887 502 A course of normal instruction. 1939 H. G. WELLS Holy Terror IV. i. 359 An increasing number of women are taking up professions now; at architecture, catering, various industries, normal teaching..they are practically as good as men or better. 1960 S. J. CURTIS & M. E. A. BOULTWOOD Introd. Hist. Eng. Educ. xii. 278 The Normal School of Design became the Royal College of Art in 1896. 1993 Beaver Oct.-Nov. 43/1 She graduated from the high school at Winkler, Manitoba in 1921 and attended Normal School at Manitou, Manitoba, until 1922.
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`& NB] 下面有关normal science的释意可以帮助我们理解为什么师范学校要叫normal school
Fo[=Dh*AqU t_ZWd#x+; normal science, science that is considered standard or normative; science that works within the prevailing paradigms of its time and uses generally accepted methods.
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