Education
The area is an education hub and is known for a number of educational institutions located here, mostly founded by the Thakur Educational Group. These institutions include, Thakur College of Science and Commerce, founded in 1992, Thakur College of Engineering and Technology, founded in 2001, Thakur Institute of Management Studies and Research, founded in 2002, Thakur Public School and Thakur Shyamnarayan School. Other schools include the Gundecha Education Academy and Oxford International school. The first branch out of Jamnabai Narsee is coming up soon(Expected to start by 2013).
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“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 days 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 (18331901)
“Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)