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What's New at CMS - International Recognition |
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UK
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War Prevention Works: 50 stories of people resolving conflict, Oxford Research Group, September 2001, UK |
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"In 1992, Babri Masjid (Mosque) at Ayodhya was destroyed, spreading a wave of riots and violence throughout the city and across the country between Hindus and Muslims.
City Montessori School, Lucknow, convened a series of public meetings to bring together the heads of all the religions of the city in its school buildings.
CMS teachers and students took out several peace marches in sensitive areas of Lucknow and appealed directly to the people of the city to refrain from violence.
Outcome: Given its proximity to Ayodhya, Lucknow escaped violence and there was no causality. |
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The Netherlands
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People Building Peace: 35 inspiring stories from around the world, European Centre for Conflict Prevention, 1999, The Netherlands |
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"The seeds of Mahatma Gandhi's visions are being nurtured in India, where a school (CMS) that started in 1959 with five pupils has become the largest private school in the world with over 29,000 students. Today, the City Montessori School is a source of inspiration for schools all around the world...
The vision of ‘Jai Jagat’ (glory be to the world, hail the world) has guided the school all these years... You can recognise the children that have been brought up in this system are compassionate human beings; they are world citizens. " |
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USA
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Exemplary Curriculums: A bold experiment in teaching values, Educational Leadership, by ASCD, 1996, USA |
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"The religiously diverse school has proven that teachers can instil both personal virtues and a desire to excel, and that academic excellence flows from character development.
Influenced by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, the founders wanted the City Montessori School to exemplify the principles of unity of humankind and universal brotherhood...” |
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Japan
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Creating Peace: Creating an Era of Harmony, Goi Peace Foundation Journal, January, 2003, No. 14, Japan |
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"CMS believes that a school must act as a lighthouse to society, providing direction and guidance.
Consequently, throughout its over four-decades long service in the field of education, CMS has been actively working to construct the defences of peace in the minds of CMS students and also in the public mind.
This is achieved through a vigorous use of various public education tools and peace-based activities designed to promote peace and harmony. ” |
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Australia
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Exemplary Curriculums: A Bold Experiment in Teaching Values, Herald of the South, July-September, 1998, Australia |
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"CMS recognises that a child observes the teacher’s and parent’s every move. Likewise, teachers are not merely experts in content; they are also responsible for the emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual development of the child...
CMS recognizes mothers and fathers through a system of titles and certificates to honour parents for the children’s achievements...” |
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USA
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In India, The World’s Largest School succeeds by focusing on Globalism and Morality, One Country, October-December 2001, USA |
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"According to parents, CMS has been successful at attracting students largely for two reasons: its reputation for academic excellence, and its distinctive programme of moral education.
CMS’s long-standing promotion of tolerance and oneness has contributed to the overall sense of communal harmony in Lucknow... The school also strives for educational innovation. It has adopted various management practices, such as Quality Circles...” etc. |
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Japan
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Creating Peace, Extraordinary CMS Efforts, Goi Foundation Journal, June, 2002, No. 12, Japan |
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"Amongst the various peace education tools used at CMS, perhaps the most widely known and seen is the CMS Peace Floats that have been, for over 25 years now, a regular feature of the annual Republic Day Parade held on 26th January every year at Lucknow, India...
The Parade is watched by over one million people every year for the last 27 years, who line up along the parade route and by many more millions on the television. Each year, the design and topic of the float varies but the overall arching theme remains world unity and world peace ” |
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An exceptional effort - UNESCO Magazine, France
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Sweden
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New School Voting Record, Globen - The Globe, Magazine of The World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC), 2005, Sweden |
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"A new school voting record was set in 2004. Not surprisingly, it was the world’s largest school - the City Montessori School in Lucknow in India - that was responsible, where 18,718 students turned out to vote.
Taking part in the Global Vote is very exciting. I felt a great sense of responsibility choosing a candidate who has been fighting on behalf of disadvantaged children for many years. The rights of the child are very important because no one should be allowed to ruin someone’s childhood... Shubham Pandey, a student of City Montessori School, Lucknow, as quoted in The Globe.” |
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Japan
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The Goi Peace Foundation Report 2001-2002 - Japan |
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| "True education releases capacities, develops analytical abilities, confidence in oneself, will power and goal setting competency, and instils the vision that will enable oneself to become a self-motivated agent of social change, serving the best interests of the community...” Jagdish Gandhi as quoted at the symposium on Declaration for All Life on Earth 2002 at Tokyo, Japan. |
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London, UK
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Regeneration & Renewal 19 November 2004, London, UK |
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"Peacemaker’s message - The world’s biggest school, headed by Jagdish Gandhi has 29,000 pupils on its books. But its work to cut inter-communal conflict is even more impressive than its size...
In a city split between Muslims and Hindus, the Montessori system’s emphasis on non-denominational spirituality and the unity of mankind proved attractive to both communities...” |
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India
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Roll of Honour, The Week, 07 November, 1999, India |
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| "When Jagdish Gandhi and his wife Bharti founded the City Montessori School (CMS) with a borrowed sum of Rs 300, they could find no student. A fortnight later, a neighbour agreed to send her five children. Thus, the school opened on July 1, 1959. Today, with 29,000 pupils, it is in the Guinness Book of Records for having the largest number of pupils in a single city in the world.” |
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