Education
In 2004 there were 79 schools in the city and rural areas of which 65 were public. Public schools had over 600 classrooms. There was one library with over 5,000 books. There was one secondary agricultural school and one nursing school connected to the hospital. There were two university campuses connected to agriculture, one of the private UPIS and another of the federal university, the UNB.
In 2004 the education levels were the following:
- Illiterate 3.9%
- Can only read and write 1.4%
- Pre-school 2.0%
- Incomplete primary school 41.1%
- Finished primary school 11.6%
- Incomplete secondary school 7.8%
- Finished secondary school 16.2%
- Incomplete university 1.8%
- Finished university 1.7%
- Under the age of 7 without school 11.4%
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“I prefer to finish my education at a different school.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made—a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.—with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?—Not at all: it absolutely stops short.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)