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:
“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)
“How to attain sufficient clarity of thought to meet the terrifying issues now facing us, before it is too late, is ... important. Of one thing I feel reasonably sure: we can’t stop to discuss whether the table has or hasn’t legs when the house is burning down over our heads. Nor do the classics per se seem to furnish the kind of education which fits people to cope with a fast-changing civilization.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)