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The Institute was attended for three weeks by two hundred and fifty teachers of the State, at the Normal School Building. A Teachers' Institute is a temporary Normal School. Unlike a Normal School, however, it has not permanent instructors;— but has for its teachers, the most experienced and able men who can be obtained from the ranks of the profession, either at home or from abroad, who conduct its exercises after the most modern and approved methods of teaching. The State Normal School is a fixed institution. The Teachers' Institute is migratory in its character. It may be held at any locality and in any section, and the Normal School is expected to supply its instructors in the future. Teachers, thoroughly trained in the Normal School, will be expected to go out from the walls of that Institution, attend the exercises of the Institutes held at various points in the State from time to time, and thus, virtually carry throughout the State, and to the doors of the people of each section of the State--the blessings and advantages of the permanent Normal School. In this light they are viewed as most valuable auxiliaries to the Normal School, attracting not only the attention of the public by adding to its common stock of knowledge by means of the daily exercises, discussion and debates upon educational and kindred subjects, but also a constant accession of pupils. In the eastern and middle sections of our country, in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and in Ohio, they are recognized as amongst the most important means of educational advancement. The more general object of these organizations is the advancement of knowledge on all subjects connected with the Teacher's vocation. To secure this object, various means are employed. Familiar lectures are given and free discussion had upon the branches of study usually taught in our primary schools, and the best methods of imparting in struction. The most approved theories, practices and methods of conducting the schools are practically examined, illustrated and applied in the exercises.

The teachers who assemble together, place themselves voluntarily in the attitude of pupils-willing and ready to be taught, and to receive instruction from each other, and from their temporary, but able and experienced instructors. They review in the most orderly but familiar manner, the branches of study which they teach in the

schools-Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, Physiology, History, &c., &c., and learn the methods of teaching, which have received the approval of the best and most enlightened educators, and which mark the present age of progress and advancement. The best methods of school discipline are taught as at the Normal School. The design of the Teacher's Institute in this respect, is to furnish a model for the teachers, by which they are best enabled to govern and conduct their own schools. Thus, every teacher in the State who has not heretofore enjoyed the means, or the opportunities of improving and perfecting himself or herself, in the art of teaching, and of imparting knowledge to youth, learns by association and contact with others of more experience, and who have possessed greater advantages, or have more natural aptitudes for the vocation, his or her own true position in the scale of enlightened and good educators, and makes improvement accordingly. Thus the primary schools are directly and greatly benefitted, and the benefits of Normal School training more generally and widely diffused. This great object is thus accomplished, and that too, with an economy, attainable in no other way, The best and most experienced teachers of the country; the professors in our colleges; men of science, for the most part afford their valuable service free of expense, or at a small expense, either to the State or to the teachers. Upon this principle the first STATE TEACHER'S INSTITUTE was held at the State Normal School building, in October, 1852. The following is a catalogue of the INSTRUCTORS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR 1852.

Mr. A. S. Welch, Principal of the Normal School.

Miss A. C. Rogers, Teacher of Female Department N. S.
Prof. Charles Davies, of New York, Instructor in Mathematics.
O. Jackson, Lecturer on Mathematics.

Prof. S. H. Douglass, of Mich. University, Natural Sciences.
Dr. E. Andrews, M. D., 66
Dr. C. Cutler, of Mass.,

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Hon. Charles D. Swan, Boston, Elocution.

EVENING LECTURES.

Physiology.

Lectures were delivered during the evening sessions, as follows:

Professor Davies, upon the responsibility of Teachers.

Rev. H. N. Strong, upon Female Education.

D. Bethune Duffield, E q, the Teacher's Mission.
E. C. W ker E 4., Natural Sciences.

Geo. Davis, Esq., Music.

F. W. Shearman, Relation of Normal School to the Teachers. Hon. Charles D. Swan, Duties of the Teacher.

CATALOGUE OF TEACHERS.

Gentlemen's Names.

C. J. Armstrong, Gidley's Station. John G. Lemmon, Dexter.