Editing Normal school (section)

==Etymology==
The term ''normal school'' originated in the early 17th century from the French ''école normale''.<ref name="Edwards1991">{{Cite journal |title=Theory, History, and Practice of Education: Fin de siècle and a new beginning |journal=McGill Journal of Education |volume=26 |issue=3 |date=Fall 1991 |url=http://mje.mcgill.ca/index.php/MJE/article/viewFile/7991/5919 |author=Reginald Edwards}}</ref> The French concept of an ''école normale'' was to provide a model school with model classrooms to teach model teaching practices to its student teachers, and thereby to set the [[Norm (social science)|norm]] for the profession of teaching.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bernstein |first=Theodore Menline |title=Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer's Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears and Outmoded Rules of English Usage |date=1971 |publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |isbn=978-1-4668-0370-1 |edition=1st |location=New York |quote=...why a normal school was called “normal.” I finally ran the derivation down in William and Mary Morris’s ''Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins''. According to the Morrises, the first of the teacher-training institutions was established in France in 1685 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and such schools were called ''école normale'' because they were intended to establish a “norm” for all other schools.}}</ref> The children being taught, their teachers, and the teachers of the teachers were often together in the same building.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} Although a [[laboratory school]], it was the official school for the children—primary or secondary.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}}. 

Alternatively, the name derives from the objective of the institution to teach the practice or norms of pedagogy, ''i.e.'', teaching.{{Fact|date=January 2025}}