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“If we judge the level of education of a nation by literary statistics it is very easy to estimate and honor the intellectual enlightenment of the Georgian people” (M. Brose, 1838)

       Education in Georgia has always been a question of major significance. In olden times education was directed by the church. In 1906 on the initiative of David the Builder a Georgian scientific-pedagogical and cultural-educational school Gelati Academy was founded, where the King invited all the Georgian men-of-letters. Gelati Academy was referred to as “the second Jerusalem”.  At the same time another academy was opened in Kakheti – “Ikalto Academy”

      Educational institutions founded in Gori:

In 1818 – One of the first theological school;

In 1830 – A region school. Later it was called a town school;

In 1876 – A pedagogical seminary with two departments: Christian and Moslem and

in 1918- it was changed into a teacher-training college;

In 1877 – A two-class school for women, then it was changed into a progymnasium    which in 1910 was changed into a gymnasium;

In 1919 – A humanitarian college on the basis of girls’ and boys' gymnasium;

In 1926 – an agricultural college;

In 1926-27 there were three seven-year-schools a nine-year school, a pedagogical college, an agricultural college, a sewing school, there were 55 four-year schools in Gori region in all;

    In 1935 - N. Baratashvili Pedagogical Institute was opened with 15 chairs, 33 labs, 3 sports grounds, a resort in New Kindghi (at the Black Sea coast), a students’ hostel;

       In 1981-98 several changes were made and now it is called Gori State University.

       Nowadays there are 5 Institutions of higher education, 3 colleges, a pedagogical college, and 81 secondary schools: among them 13 secondary schools are in Gori and 68 in the region.

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