Education
Though Malda is one of the least educated districts of West Bengal, it contains some of the most élite schools of the state. Malda Zilla School, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Vidyamandir, Barlow Girls' High School, A.C.Institution, Lalit Mohan Shyam Mohini High School, Malda Town High School, C.C.Girls High School, St. Xavier's School (English medium), St Mary School (English medium), Kendriya Vidyalaya-Malda, Jingle Bell School (An English Medium preparatory school), Daffodils English Academy, Holy Child English Academy, Humpty Dumpty and North Point English Academy are also some of the most reputed schools of the town.
Malda has two engineering colleges, viz. IMPS College of Engineering and Technology, established 2003 and Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology (GKCIET), established 2010. Malda College established in 23 July 1944, is the oldest higher educational institution in the city. Malda Women's College is the only women's college in the city.
The Malda Medical College and Hospital, located in the heart of the town, established in 2011 is the only medical college in the region . The University of Gour Banga was established in 2008. Almost all of the 28 colleges in Maldah, Uttar Dinajpur and Dakshin Dinajpur, with the exception of Raiganj University College, are affiliated with this university.
Malda Polytechnic is one of the oldest polytechnic colleges in West Bengal.
Malda Zilla School is one of the oldest Schools of Malda, famous former students are Professor Benoy Sarkar of Calcutta University and Ramesh Chandra Ghosh MABL, Lawyer and former colleague of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and was imprisoned by British in 1942.
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“As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“There comes a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)