Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Preface xi
6. Teacher Training 1
7. Teacher Training as “Grand Regulator”: Establishing a Provincial Normal School, 1838–69
8. “The Grand Regulator” 25
9. “A Humiliating Defeat” and a Pyrrhic Victory 48
10. “Several Pounds In Arrears” 64
11. “The Scylla and Charybdis of Politics and Denominationalism” 88
12. Beyond “the Mere Giving of Knowledge”: The Elusive Balance between Scholarship and Training, 1870–1926
13. “A Democracy of Education” 109
14. The Normal School’s “Duality of Function” 131
15. “The Chloroforming Effect” of Popular Education 156
16. Training as a Woman’s Story, 1870–1961: The Licensing, Training, and Education of Women Teachers
17. “A Concession to Circumstances” 185
18. “You Took What You Could Get” 214
19. “The Household Life of the Normal School” 241
20. Conclusion: 1961–97
21. Haunted by Its Origins 277
22. The Regulation and Training of Teachers 301
23. A Note on Sources 309
24. Notes 311
25. Bibliography 359
26. Index 375