Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Education, 1859

In obedience to the requisitions of law the Board of Education respectfully submit to the legislature their Twenty-Second Annual Report.

During the past year, the Board have endeavored to discharge with care and fidelity the various duties which the statutes of the Commonwealth require them to perform, in the different departments of popular education in the State of Massachusetts.

Normal Schools.

The Normal Schools which come under the particular supervision of the Board are accomplishing the great objects for which they were established, by sending out annually an able, accomplished and efficient corps of teachers to labor in their profession in the schools of the State. In July last, circulars were addressed by the Secretary of the Board to the school committees of the several towns and cities in the State, containing interrogatories designed to elicit from the committees a full and frank expression of their opinion of the merits and demerits of the graduates of Normal Schools.

The school committees have generally responded promptly and fully to the questions proposed, and the general result is, that in their opinion, the persons educated at the Normal Schools excel teachers who have not had the advantages of these institutions, in their capacity to communicate knowledge and to guide their pupils into a clear understanding of the principles of the art or science taught.

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