Education
As of 2010, there were 24 universities and community colleges in the Capital Governorate, the University of Jordan is the oldest university established in the governorate, it is also Jordan's first university, other universities are the Arab Open University which is owned and run by the Arab League and Princess Sumaya University for Technology which was named after Princess Sumaya of Jordan. Petra University was ranked 20th in the Arab World by Webometrics, Philadelphia University (Jordan) is the largest private university in the Capital Governorate.
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“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)
“... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“A woman might claim to retain some of the child’s faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)