Education
Further information: Education in San AntonioThe City of San Antonio is home to many public institutions. The San Antonio area's largest university is the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Other public institutions include the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas A&M University–San Antonio, and the five colleges of the Alamo Community College District.
The city has many private institutions as well, such as Our Lady of the Lake University and St. Mary's University on the inner west side. Trinity University and the University of the Incarnate Word are in Midtown. The Culinary Institute of America maintains its third campus in Downtown.
Texas Lutheran University in Seguin is the only higher education institution in the area outside of San Antonio city limits.
The San Antonio area has many public elementary and secondary schools sorted into the following independent school districts:
County | Independent School Districts (ISDs) |
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Atascosa | Charlotte, Jourdanton, Karnes City, Lytle, Pleasanton, Poteet, Somerset |
Bandera | Bandera, Medina, Northside, Utopia |
Bexar County/City of San Antonio | Alamo Heights, Boerne, Comal, East Central, Edgewood, Fort Sam Houston, Harlandale, Judson, Lackland, Medina Valley, North East, Northside, Randolph Field, San Antonio, Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City, South San Antonio, Southside, Southwest, Somerset |
Comal | New Braunfels, Comal |
Guadalupe | Seguin, Navarro, Comal, New Braunfels, Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City, Marion |
Kendall | Boerne, Comfort, Blanco |
Medina | Devine, Hondo, Medina Valley, Natalia, Lytle |
Wilson | Floresville, La Vernia, Stockdale, Nixon-Smiley Consolidated, Poth |
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war?not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“A good education is another name for happiness.”
—Ann Plato (1820?)
“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupils soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)