Excerpt from The Idea and Necessity of Normal School Training: An Address by Rev. Geo. B. Spalding, D. D., Of Dover, N. H.; Delivered at the Dedication of the Normal School Building at Gorham, Maine, Dec. 26, 1878 We are met here to-day to inaugurate a new movement in the interests of education. The soil out of which it springs is certainly favorable to its growth. 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.