Education
The city hosts some of the most important universities of the country:
- Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. Opened in 1830, the second oldest university in Bolivia.
- Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo
- Escuela Militar de Ingeniería
- Universidad Privada Boliviana
- Universidad Nuestra Señora de La Paz
- Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo
- Universidad Privada San Francisco de Asis
- Universidad Loyola
- Universidad NUR
- Universidad La Salle
- Universidad Tecnológica Boliviana
- Universidad Privada del Valle
- Universidad Central de Bolivia
- Universidad Salesiana de Bolivia
- Universidad de Aquino Bolivia
- Universidad Adventista de Bolivia
- Universidad Saint Paul
- Universidad Real
- Universidad de Los Andes
- Fundación Infocal La Paz
- Escuela Normal Superior Simón Bolívar
- Escuela Industrial Superior "Pedro Domingo Murillo"
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“Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
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—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)