Education
Patna University was established in 1917 and is the seventh oldest modern university in South Asia Sub-continent. Patna also has a variety of other universities, as well as many primary and secondary schools.
A 2012 census found 1,574 schools: of these, 78% were private unaided schools (most of them low cost, charging fees less than Rs. 300/- per month), 21% government schools and 1% private aided.
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“His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)