高こう等とう師し範はん学がっ校こう

noun

higher normal school; pre-war teacher training college

Historical term for a pre-1945 public institution that trained male secondary-school teachers. Often abbreviated as 高師 (こうし).

• 彼かれの祖そ父ふは高こう等とう師し範はん学がっ校こうを卒そつ業ぎょうして、旧きゅう制せい中ちゅう学がくの教きょう師しになった。

  His grandfather graduated from a higher normal school and became a teacher at an old-system middle school.

• 高こう等とう師し範はん学がっ校こうは戦せん後ごの学がく制せい改かい革かくで新しん制せい大だい学がくに移い行こうした。

  Higher normal schools were reorganized into new-system universities after the post-war educational reform.