Education
There are eighteen universities in Santo Domingo, the highest number of any city in the Dominican Republic. Established in 1538, the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) is the oldest university in the Americas and is also the only public university in the city. Santo Domingo holds the nation's highest percentage of residents with a higher education degree.
Other universities include Universidad Adventista Dominicana (UNAD), Universidad APEC (UNAPEC), Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), Universidad del Caribe (UNICARIBE), Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) (UNIBE), Universidad Católica Santo Domingo (UCSD), Universidad de la Tercera Edad (UTE), Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago (UTESA), Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), Instituto de Ciencias Exactas (INCE), Universidad Organización y Método (O&M), Universidad Interamericana (UNICA), Universidad Eugenio María de Hostos (UNIREMOS), Universidad Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal (UFHEC), Universidad Instituto Cultural Domínico Americano (UNICDA), Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Instituto Tecnológico de las Americas (ITLA) and Universidad de Psicologia Industrial Dominicana (UPID).
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“There are words in that letter to his wife, respecting the education of his daughters, which deserve to be framed and hung over every mantelpiece in the land. Compare this earnest wisdom with that of Poor Richard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Since [Rousseau’s] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)