Normaalcursus was the training course for village schoolteachers founded at Koeta Radja in 1910.
Since “a bad teacher spoils so much precisely in a beginning period that ten good teachers can afterwards scarcely make it good again,” the course was established “which brought the necessary improvement in quality.” It was the first institutional answer in Atjeh to the shortage of qualified teachers that hampered volksonderwijs in its earliest years; two-year courses for the training of village schoolteachers were later founded at various places, so that by 1938 more than two-thirds of the province’s six hundred village teachers were of Acehnese or other local origin.
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Generaal Swart, Pacificator van Atjeh (“General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh”), by M. H. du Croo, Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with the collaboration of H. J. Schmidt, Titular Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with a foreword by His Excellency Lieutenant-General K.N.I.L. (retired) G. K. Dijkstra (Maastricht: N.V. Leiter-Nypels, 1943), Chapter XIII.