normal school
nounEtymology Calque of French école normale, so called because the norms of pedagogy are taught there.
1
Dated A school for training teachers, especially in mainland Europe and North America.
- He had a sister, who had been sent to America with him at the same time to live with the uncle, who would graduate from normal school this year.1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 122:
- In 1685 at Reims he also founded, for the training of his teachers, a school that is often considered the first normal school.1993, Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, volume 15, page 83: