Abstract With the adjustment and change of the teacher education policy, normal school for cultivating primary school teacher has been fading away from people’s sights and memories. As one of the melodies of Chinese educational chorus, what’s the normal school left for its students and what’ the fruits it left for the fundamental education in Chinese rural area? In other words, in the history and reality, what kinds of the roles that the normal school education and normal school students has played, and have these roles carried completely out their performance? All the questions are worthy of reflection.
The paper focus on the investigation of the real lives of Wang Lijuan, who entered into the normal school in certain province of the center part of China at the end of 1980’s and three years later engaged in teaching position as a primary school teacher in rural area, and of her schoolmates, including their work, study, marriage, social intercourse and so on. The author tries to describe a real situation about the education in normal school and the real experiences of its students through the insight of objects’ memories and the documents recorded in the national polices in primary teacher education and training. Based on this, the research tries to find the answers for the above questions based on a glimpse of the interrelationship of between normal school and its graduates and national policy, social economy.
