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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“You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.”
—Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one’s parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as “self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.””
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