Excerpt from Thirty-Sixth Annual Catalogue of the State Normal School at Mankato, Minnesota, for the School Year 1904-1905: Nd Announcements for 1905-1906 The chief purpose of the school is special instruction in the Science and Art of Teaching; but, as in nearly all other normal schools in the country, a thorough system of academic instruction is at once the basis, and, to a large extent, the medium of professional instruction in the courses not designed for high school graduates. General culture and accu rate scholarship are necessary to good teaching; but with this culture and scholarship the teacher must be trained in the principles that underlie his art and in the application of these principles to the practical work of the school. The school comprises two departments the Normal School proper and the Elementary School and Training Department. The Elementary School includes a kindergarten, the usual eight grades below the high school, and a Review Class in which candidates who fail in their entrance examinations will be given an opportunity to make up the subjects in which they may be deficient, and students who wish to do so may review carefully the common branches before entering upon the work of the normal school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.