City Montessori School
| City Montessori School | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1959 |
| address |
12 Station Road |
| place | Lucknow , Uttar Pradesh |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| Country | India |
| Coordinates | 26 ° 47 '22 " N , 80 ° 53' 40" E |
| student | approx. 51,000 |
| Teachers | approx. 2,500 |
| Website | www.cmseducation.org |
The City Montessori School ( Hindi : सिटी मॉन्टेसरी स्कूल, लखनऊ) is a private Montessori school in Lucknow, India and is considered the largest school in the world.
history
The school was founded in 1959 by Jagdish and Bharti Gandhi. The couple borrowed 300 rupees and founded a Montessori school with five children. In 2002 the school won the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education . In 2004 she received special recognition from the Nuclear-Free Future Award . As early as 2005, the school broke the world record for the school with the most students when it replaced the world's largest school in the Philippines with around 20,000 students with 29,212 students .
In 2010 the founder of the school received the “Hope for Humanity Award” from the Dalai Lama . In the 2010/2011 school year, the school had 2,500 teachers, 39,437 students and 1,000 classrooms. According to the school, more than 51,000 students are currently studying at the school.
description
The CMS offers holistic learning and teaches according to the principles of Montessori education . The students are between three and 17 years old. The class size is around 45 children. As is customary in India, every child must wear a school uniform. The school fees are for the younger 1,000 rupees , for the elderly 2,500 rupees per month. The school has 20 locations in the city.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Guinness Book of Records : 39,437 students on August 9, 2010 for the school year 2010/2011 (English)
- ↑ UNESCO press release
- ↑ Welcome to the World's Biggest School , TIME, October 15, 2012 (English)
- ↑ School brochure 2016/17 ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
- ↑ World record: 45,000 children - This is the largest school in the world , Die Welt, October 18, 2012
