Nantong Normal University:
Nantong Normal University is a full-time institution of higher learning, which mainly trains primary school teachers with junior college education. Its history of more than one hundred years has integrated three main sources: Nantong Normal School, Nantong Women's Normal School and Haimen Normal School.
1840 After the Opium War broke out, China gradually became a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, with increasingly serious internal and external troubles. Especially after 1894+65438 Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, western powers scrambled to divide their spheres of influence in China, plundering land, and the fate of the country and the nation came to a critical juncture.
At this time, some advanced intellectuals issued the call of "saving the country through industry" and "saving the country through education", and they began to set up industries and advocate and create new education.
In this historical trend, the enlightened and progressive gentry in Nantong, represented by Zhang Jian, a famous industrialist and educator in modern times, and his brothers Zhang Jian, Liang, Shen Shusheng, clearly realized China's "method of survival".
Only industry and education ","industry and education are the foundation of prosperity ",so in the first two or three decades of the 20th century, they advocated and built a relatively complete modern school education system in Nantong, including normal education, basic education, vocational education, special education and higher education.
They were the first people to establish normal education, because they deeply realized that "they don't want teachers, but want to educate and popularize the people without guidance." Therefore, the establishment of education must start from primary schools, especially from normal schools. "Normal schools are the mother of education".
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Nantong normal college