Education
Portuguese is the official national language, and thus the primary language taught in schools. But English and Spanish are part of the official high school curriculum.
Nheengatu, an indigenous Tupian language, has also official status in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira and has a few thousand speakers in that region.
There are more than 6 universities in whole state of Amazonas.
Read more about this topic: Amazonas (Brazilian State)
Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Institutions of higher education in the United States are products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are valued over cooperation, connectedness and subjectivity.”
—Yolanda Moses (b. 1946)
“... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God’s Will.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
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—Richard B. Stolley (20th century)