Document Type
Thesis
Date of Degree Completion
Summer 1970
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
History
Committee Chair
Thomas W. Walterman
Second Committee Member
Floyd Rodine
Third Committee Member
Arley L. Vancil
Abstract
During the decades of the 1820's and 1830's, educators in this country studied the European schools where the principles of Johann H. Pestalozzi (1746-1827), Friedrick Froebel (1782-1852), and Emanuel Fellenberg (1771-1844) had been put into practice with favorable results. The Prussian normal schools established by Frederick the Great were some of the best in the world. American educators came back with glowing reports of the progress Europeans were making in this direction. By 1838, due to the efforts of James Carter (1795-1849) and Horace Mann (179 6-1859), and because of the generosity of a Boston merchant, the Massachusetts legislature was moved to fund a normal school project for a three-year period. The following year, on July 3, in the town of Lexington, the first state normal school in the United States was opened.
Recommended Citation
Ring, Harold E., "A History of the Events Leading to the Establishment of the First State Normal School in America" (1970). All Master's Theses. 1483.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/1483