THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
EDUCATION IN EARLY AMERICA BIRTH OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES
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private school
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parochial school
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normal school
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dame school
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Danish colonialists first established normal school in the Indian subcontinent in 1716 at the Tranquiver (present name ‘Tarangambadi’) town under Nagapattanam district of Tamil Nadu. William Kerry set up a normal school at Bombay in 1802. It was established in Kolkata in 1852.
Detailed explanation-2: -Savitribai took a teachers’ training course and became a qualified teacher in 1847. The couple then started a school for girls in Bhidewada in Pune city in 1848, and she became its first teacher.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1685, St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, founded what is generally considered the first normal school, the École Normale, in Reims, Champagne, France.