Several countries have government departments named the Ministry of Education or the Ministry of Public Education. The first such ministry ever is considered to be the Commission of National Education (pl. Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, lt. Edukacinė komisija) founded in 1773 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Partial list of education ministries:
- Ministry of Education (Afghanistan)
- Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (Austria) (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur)
- Ministry of Education (Bahamas)
- Ministry of Education (Bahrain)
- Ministry of Education (Bangladesh)
- Ministry of Education (Brazil)
- Ministry of Education and Youth (Belize)
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Science (Bulgaria)
- Ministry of Education of Chile
- Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
- Ministry of Education (Republic of China)
- Ministry of National Education (Colombia)
- Ministry of Education (Egypt)
- Ministry of Education (Ethiopia)
- Ministry of Education (Finland)
- Finnish National Agency for Education
- Minister of National Education (France)
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)
- Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs (Greece)
- Education Bureau (Hong Kong)
- Ministry of Education (India)
- Ministry of Education (Iran)
- Ministry of Education (Iraq)
- Ministry of Education and Skills (Ireland)
- Ministry of Education (Israel)
- Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy)
- Merged from Ministry of Public Education (Italy) in 2008
- Ministry of Education (Jamaica)
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)
- Ministry of Education (Kenya)
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
- Ministry of Education (Lebanon)
- Ministry of Education (Malaysia)
- Ministry of Higher Education (Malaysia)
- Secretariat of Public Education (Mexico)
- Ministry of Education (Namibia)
- Ministry of Education (Nepal)
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Netherlands)
- Ministry of Education (New Zealand)
- Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education
- Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research
- Ministry of Education (Ontario)
- Ministry of Education (Pakistan)
- Ministry of Education (Peru)
- Ministry of Education (Poland)
- Ministry of Education (Portugal)
- Ministry of Education (Russia)
- Ministry of Education (Saint Lucia)
- Ministry of Education (Saudi Arabia)
- Ministry of Education and Sports (Serbia)
- Ministry of Education (Sierra Leone)
- Ministry of Education (Singapore)
- Minister of Education (South Africa), split in 2009 into:
- Minister of Basic Education (South Africa)
- Minister of Higher Education and Training (South Africa)
- Ministry of Education (Soviet Union)
- Ministry of Education (Spain)
- Ministry of Education (Sri Lanka)
- Ministry of Education and Research (Sweden)
- Ministry of Education (Thailand)
- Ministry of National Education (Algeria)
- Ministry of National Education (Turkey)
- Ministry of Education (Ukraine)
- Department for Education
- Merged from Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom)
- Which previously merged from Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)
- Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture (Zimbabwe)
Famous quotes containing the words ministry of, ministry and/or education:
“The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State’s ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
“the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him ages of education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.”
—Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)