Education
Portuguese is the official national language, as well as the primary language taught in schools. However, English and Spanish are part of the official high school curriculum.
There are more than 58 universities in state of Mato Grosso.
Cuiabá is home to the following universities:
- Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT);
- State University of Mato Grosso (Unemat);
- Universidade de Cuiabá (Unic)
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Whatever may be our just grievances in the southern states, it is fitting that we acknowledge that, considering their poverty and past relationship to the Negro race, they have done remarkably well for the cause of education among us. That the whole South should commit itself to the principle that the colored people have a right to be educated is an immense acquisition to the cause of popular education.”
—Fannie Barrier Williams (1855–1944)
“In that reconciling of God and Mammon which Mrs. Grantly had carried on so successfully in the education of her daughter, the organ had not been required, and had become withered, if not defunct, through want of use.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)