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About
Dr Jagdish Gandhi

A visionary and a far-sighted person, Jagdish Gandhi has been building bridges of peace across the globe for nearly 50 years. For his long-standing contributions to education in peace, the United Nations awarded the prestigious UNESCO Prize for Peace Education in the year 2002 to his unique creation - the City Montessori School, popularly known as CMS, which Gandhi founded in 1959 and has been serving as its Founder-Manager. Among the previous recipients of this prize are Nobel Peace Prize laureates – Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Rigoberto Menchu Tum of Guatemala as well as groups such as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). 
  
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Biography   Personal Life   Philosophy

Influenced greatly by Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave and others, a young and idealistic Dr Jagdish Gandhi ventured in 1959 to create a new mindset through education. With just five children on roll, no personal wealth, and the equivalent of ten US dollars in borrowed capital, the motivated Dr Gandhi began his own personal experiment in Lucknow, India, some fifty years ago in the name of City Montessori School.

TV Talks
Dr Jagdish Gandhi speaks regularly on several international and national TV channels like Aastha TV, Zee Jagran, CMS Local Channel and Sadhna TV channel. His spiritual talks are viewed by millions of his fans who stay glued to the television to hear him.

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 Affiliations 
1. Founder-Manager, City Montessori School, Lucknow
2. Chairman, World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education
3. President, World Movement for Global Democracy (WMGD)
4. Vice President, World Union, Pondicherry (2003)
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Dr Jagdish Gandhi has since the very beginning been promoting world unity and global brotherhood, not just through his words and profession, but through his day to day deeds. His personal and family life too, reflect his total commitment towards his vision of One World.


World’s Most Loving & United Baha’i family of
Mr & Mrs Jagdish Gandhi


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 Dr Jagdish Gandhi's Philosophy
The philosophy of 'Jai Jagat' (Victory be to the world)
Under Dr Gandhi's inspiration and guidance, his school has adopted Saint Vinoba Bhave’s philosophy of ‘Jai Jagat’ (Victory be to the world).

School as the ‘Lighthouse of Society’
Dr Gandhi believes that the school must act as a Lighthouse of Society, providing meaningful education, spiritual direction, guidance and leadership to students, parents and the society in general.

All Religion Prayer and World Unity Prayer

Dr Gandhi was the pioneer in organizing all religion-prayers before the commencement of all school events.

CMS sees every child as the light of the world
The cornerstone of CMS educational philosophy is a firm belief in the statement, “Every child is potentially the light of the world, as well as the cause of its darkness; wherefore the question of education must be accounted as of primary importance.

Creating lifetime learners

We believe that the destiny of man is shaped in the classroom.

CMS — a place where every child excels
The academic and co-curricular achievements of CMS students have placed the school amongst the foremost educational institutions of the world.

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Awards & Recognitions New Concept of Education
Key to the City of Georgetown, USA
Certificate of Guinness World Records
The Derozio Award
Friend of Young Physicists
2004 Nuclear-Free Future Special Recognition Award
Changemakers Innovation Award 2005
Quality Pioneer Award
UP Ratan Award
Waaris Ali Shah Award For Communal Harmony
Verdlaun Excellence Awards 2003
Bhartiya Awam Society UP
'Outstanding Achievement Award'
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The philosophy of 'Jai Jagat' (Victory be to the world)
School as the ‘Lighthouse of Society’
All Religion Prayer and World Unity Prayer
Students' Quality Control Circles
Home Visit Scheme and Model Class Presentations
FM Radio Stations and Film Division
Call for Enforceable International Law and empowerment of International Court of Justice
International Conferences of Chief Justices of the World
Guardian of world's two billion children
Aao Dosti Karein
Children's World Parliament
World Citizen Dress
World Unity Satsang (World Unity Congregation)

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