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City Montessori School, Lucknow
City Montessori School (CMS) is a co-educational English medium private school that offers education from Pre-school up to K-12 (Grade 12) level in Lucknow, India. The school was founded in 1959 by Dr. Bharti Gandhi and Dr. Jagdish Gandhi. It is mentioned as world's largest school by Guinness Book of World Records which reported 55,547 students as of 2019. In 2014, CMS society was accredited with the United Nations Department of Public Information as affiliated NGO. Background Dr. Jagdish Gandhi and his wife Dr. Bharti Gandhi founded the City Montessori School with just 5 children in 1959 in a room at their home. This first campus is now known as the Station Road Branch. Each student is placed in one of the four houses which are Love, Hope, Unity and Peace with the colours Green, Red, Yellow and Blue representing each house respectively. In 2002 CMS was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. The school has also received the 'Hope of Humanity' Award from the Buddhist sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
