Education
The municipality has 25 preschool programs, 70 primary schools and nine middle schools. There is also a center for students with learning disabilities. There is one technical high school called COBAQ, which serves an average of 650 students. The Escuela Normal (Teachers’ College) del Estado de Querétaro has a campus in Jalpan with specialites in Social Sciences and Spanish. There are various universities with campuses in the municipality including Centro de Educación Superior Tecnológica del Estado de Querétaro (CESTEQ), Universidad de San Juan del Río and Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, offering degrees in Eco-tourism, computer science, accounting, law and nursing. There is also one public library in the municipal seat, with a collection of about 5,000 books.
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“The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.”
—Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)
“The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farm should be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our age the most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the day’s demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)