Excerpt from Teachers Manvals: His Life and Teachings
The Albany Normal School was not founded by the people: it was the work of the most thoughtful men of the State. In establishing it the Legislature followed the advice of such men as Rev. Dr. Alonzo Potter, Francis Dwight, John C.Spencer, Gideon Hawley, Col. Samuel Young, Calvin T.Hulburd, and others of that stamp. The "Academy interest" urgently prompted a repeal of the law, but the school had been established for five years; and before that time the pupils sent out by David P.Page had demonstrated the wisdom of the step taken, and opposition slowly subsided.
The success of the school turned on the success of the first graduates: they went forth determined to redeem education in New York; they were inspired to do something far higher than "keep a school;" they felt their mission was to exhibit to the people the school as it should be.
Mr. Page was peculiarly successful in drawing around him men and women capable of receiving his inspiration.
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