Framingham State University - Dial Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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I I l .1-J . so I I I . I I I I Ii . . I I I , I I 1 ll ' I l :I ii iwll 2. . lux ,. i I ' iii ' iii . ll' ,Q GUI? COLLEGE TI-IE FIRST STATE INIGRMAL IN AMERICA Une hundred years ago, on July 3, 1839, the Framingham State Teachers College was opened at Lexington, Massachusetts-the First State Normal School in America. lt, with its two younger sister schools-the Westfield and Bridgewater State Teachers Colleges-formed the nucleus ol an educational experiment in teacher preparation initiated by the state Legislature in T839 under the direction of l-lorace Mann, Secretary ol the First Board ol Education in Massachusetts. Private contributions ol money, buildings, and material, especially the generous gift ol S'l0,000 by Boston's rich merchant, Edmund Dwight, which challenged the Legislature to a lilce appropriation, made possible the three-year etlort to demonstrate what a school directed solely to the pur- pose ofthe preparation of elementary school teachers could accomplish toward raising the standard ol elementary education in the state. This etlort to improve the common schools was greatly needed. Through- out the United States elementary public education was receiving little attention. llliteracy oi the people was rapidly increasing. The well-to-do sent their children to private schools and very grudgingly and meagrely supported the 'lcommon schools -the schools for the children ol those too poor to pay the small Tees of the private schools. The school houses were 'imere hovels, and the teachers were for the most part ill-prepared and ill-Fitted lor their worl4. But men like James Gordon Carter and Charles Broolts ol Massachusetts, Thomas Gallaudet and I-lenry Barnard of Connecticut, aided by l-lorace Mann, dynamic leader ol them all, were successlul in their demand for the relorm ol the common schools and the preparation of teachers Fitted lor their taslc. Cyrus Peirce, the able schoolmaster from Nantuclcet, who became the principal ol the First State Normal School in America, and his group ol stu- dents-three on that First stormy day ol July 3, l839, twenty-one within a lew weeks-made ol this First experimental state school in teacher-training a brilliant success. I-lis graduates, imbued with his zeal and untiring ellort, were so well-prepared for their teaching in the public schools that there was no possi- bility ol the Failure of the experiment in teacher-training. Cyrus Peirce himsell said, 'il would rather die than lailf' It was Cyrus Peirce who, by his frequent admonitions to his pupils at the close ol the day to live to the truth, gave to the school its motto: ULIVETQ Tl-IE TIQIJTI-I. When George B. Emerson, a member of the Board ol Education, presented the school its First seal at the dedication ol its new home in Framing- ham in l853, he incorporated this motto in the seal. This original seal is now the nucleus ol the college seal.

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