normal school

noun

(formerly) a school offering a two-year course and certification to high school graduates preparing to be teachers, especially elementary-school teachers.

Normal School

(in France, and formerly England, the US, and Canada) a school or institution for training teachers

First recorded in 1825–35

C19: from French École Normale: the first French school so named was intended as a model for similar institutions

Michelle Obama is fixed on keeping her daughters on a normal school schedule.

She is a country school-ma'am, and is to be graduated this month in the Normal School in Mayville, where you are visiting.

At the same time he stated that government would not persist in their proposal to found a normal school.

We make the profession of teacher a stop-gap for girls between the normal school and matrimony.

A little reflection will satisfy us how great a departure this would be from the just idea of the Normal School.

At the age of 18 she was graduated from the Salem Normal School.

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