CMS Education

City Montessori School (CMS) is the world’s largest school, with over 55,000 students and 4,500 staff across 18 campuses in the city of Lucknow. Founded in 1959 with 5 children on a borrowed capital of 300 Rupees by Dr Jagdish Gandhi and Dr Bharti Gandhi, CMS today is an ICSE- and ISC-affiliated school whose students from Montessori to Class XII achieve some of the highest exam results in India. Beyond these achievements, Drs Jagdish and Bharti Gandhi started CMS with vision to inspire generations of children to become socially motivated and conscious citizens of India and the world. Their motto “Jai Jagat” - 'Hail the World', in contrast to the popular post-Independence greeting 'Jai Hind' ('Hail India') at the time of CMS's foundation - has been the school's greeting from the beginning. CMS therefore places great emphasis on children's all-round development, moral character, and international exposure.

Philosophy

At CMS, we believe that education for the 21st Century must be both broader and bolder. A modern school needs to do much more than ensuring good marks on a sheet, which is the minimum responsibility of a school. A ‘good’ education must produce much more: a ‘good’ human being with a broad range of capabilities.

A CMS education takes into account the three realities of a human being: material, human, and divine. In turn, CMS education is based on four building blocks, developing in children Universal Values, Global Understanding, a spirit of Service to the World , and an attitude of Excellence in All Things .

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International Events

With a view to promote the ideals of World Unity and World Peace across the globe, CMS organizes Peace Congresses in the form of 28 international events. Every CMS event starts with a prayer for peace in the world. Although these events are organized on a variety of subjects like Geography, History, English language, Computer Science, Science and Technology, and Sports, the central idea behind organizing all these events remains development of cultural understanding and promotion of peaceful co-existence and unity in young minds. Such a stimulating environment lets children appreciate first-hand the similarities and celebrate the differences between people from all over the country and the world. They recognise how despite our differences, we are one people, united in our diversity which makes us stronger. Children gain enormous confidence and these are experiences of a lifetime. Instead of being confined to the local reality in Lucknow, children experience a wider reality which has important impact on their whole psychology and on how they relate to each other.

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