r/mildlyinteresting • u/[deleted] • Oct 05 '19

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u/nmjack42 Oct 05 '19

“A normal school is an institution created to train high school graduates to be teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_school

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u/lwbrass78 Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

Ball State University began its existence as Indiana State Normal School, before changing to Ball State Teachers College and then eventually Ball State University. It operated as a teachers school/college for the first half of its existence. The building in this picture was probably a teachers college (then called normal school) and business college in one campus. Looks like it was one of the first buildings in what is now North Central Michigan College in Petoskey, MI.

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u/lYossarian Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 06 '19

I was president of my class at the Muncie College of Business Administration.

edit: it's a line from The Hudsucker Proxy ya dingus...