﻿HISTORY OF THE SPANISH NORMAL SCHOOL FOR MEN 

 TEACHERS IN MANILA, 1865-1905* 



By Andrew W. Cain 

 (From the Bureau of Education, Manila, P. I.) 



Four plates 



CONTENTS 

 Introduction. 

 Preliminary Plans. 

 The Royal Decrees of 1863. 



General plan of organization of the normal school. 



Means of support. 



The course of study. 



Who were to be admitted as students. 



Cost to pupils. 



Interior regulations. 



Certificates. 



Responsibilities and privileges of graduates. 

 The Equipment of the Normal School. 

 The Founding of the Normal School, 1865. 



Existing educational conditions. 



The formal opening. 

 Early History of the Normal School. 



Distribution of graduates. 



Program of duties. 



Outline of subjects in the course of study for elementary teachers. 

 Contemporary Comment. 



Difficulties in the way. 



Conditions confronting graduates. 



Was the purpose of the school achieved. 



Recollections of a graduate. 

 The Normal School is Elevated to the Grade of Superior. 



Organization. 



Support. 



Curriculum. 



Pensioners. 



Regulations. 



Teachers' examinations. 

 The Normal School Booth at the Exposition. 

 The Pedagogical Academy. 



The First Pedagogical Contest in the Philippines. 

 The Normal School under the American Flag. 



A statement to the patrons of the school. 



A statement to the Philippine Commission. 



The creation of the Department of Public Instruction. 



A request for authority to continue the normal school. 



The withdrawal of financial support and final closing of the normal 

 school. 

 Graduates of the Normal School from 1866 to 1905. 

 Bibliography. 



*A thesis written to satisfy, in part, the requirements for the degree of 

 master of arts in the University of the Philippines. 



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