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NORMAL SCHOOL AT hLsANy.--The Normal
School at Albany, a institution for the education
Of the teachers in the Common Schools, was open
ed on Wednesday last under gratifying auspices
If conducted properly, this institution may conri.
butte very materially to the improvement Of educa-
ton as science. The instructors of youth in the
primary, and, indeed, in some Of the more pretend.
ing schools Of this country, have not in many in
stances undergone the best possible course Of edu-
cation for the discharge of their important duties
school where candidates for the Office Of Public
School teachers could be themselves "properly''
educated, both in the branches Of knowledge in
which they would afterwards be called on to in.
shuct others, will in the science OF education
itself, was much wanted. We are glad to perceive
therefore that the first step has been at length taken


in this matter, and that an institution for the pur-
poses just described has been opened under the pa
tronage of the State, in such a way as will ensure
it fair trial