AbstractThe Government Normal School (GNS) was established on 12 September 1881 by the Hong Kong authorities under the governorship of John Pope Hennessy, and prematurely closed down two years later. This paper argues that the GNS, as the first full-time and single-purposed teacher training institute in the territory which had rudimentary elements of Hong Kong teacher education institutes in late years, should have been marked in the history of Hong Kong's teacher education. By utilizing primary and secondary source materials, the paper reconstructs the 2-year history of the School and discusses the implications of its education practices on the present-day teacher education.
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