normal school
English edit
Etymology edit
Calque of French école normale, so called because the norms of pedagogy are taught there.
Noun edit
normal school (plural normal schools)
- (obsolete) A school for training teachers, especially in mainland Europe and North America.
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 122:
- 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.
Translations edit
school for training teachers
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