ÉCOLE NORMALE DE L'AN III.

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ÉCOLE NORMALE DE L'AN III.
- Teacher training sessions, collected by stenographers and reviewed by teachers. Paris, Reynier, s.d. [except for volume VI of Leçons, at the address of Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Cercle-Social, L'An IV de la République]. [1795-1796]. 7 volumes in-8, porphyry basane, smooth decorated spine, marbled edges (contemporary binding). Morgan, Arithmetical books, pp. 81-82 (for the new 1800 edition). Very rare complete collection, in first edition, of the ephemeral École normale de l'An III, the first school to function after the events of the Revolution. It comprises 7 volumes, six for the Lessons and one for the Debates (vol. VII), and is illustrated with 27 (out of 28) copper-engraved plates?23 (out of 24) for Descriptive Geometry, 2 for Mathematics and 2 others for Natural History. The aim of the Ecole Normale, created on the 9th brumaire of the year III under the impulse of the Committee of Instruction, represented by Lakanal, was to train teachers and professors for other schools: the art of teaching was to be taught there. The duration of the course, initially planned for at least four months, extended from the 1st rainy season to the 26th floral season (from 20 January to 15 May 1795), i.e. 61 sessions in all. The teaching was based on two specific points: the teachers, appointed by decree among the most learned of the time, had made a commitment not to read or use their memory for written speeches, they had to improvise their lessons, and each lesson and the debates with the students were entirely recorded by stenographers and immediately published in a newspaper created for this purpose and distributed sheet by sheet. Most teachers, however, paid little attention to showing students the "art of teaching" and gave in to the fairly natural temptation to communicate to their audience either their own discoveries in the science they were cultivating or the highest results that the science had achieved. Thus Laplace and Lagrange, after begi
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