Dr Jagdish Gandhi, Founder of City Montessori School, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Social Science Honoris Causa by Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
The citation of the Honorary Doctorate read, “Dr Gandhi is a world-renowned educationist and a true visionary in his field. He co-founded (with his wife Dr Bharti Gandhi) the City Montessori School (CMS) in Lucknow, India, in 1959. Sixty years later, the school has grown from 5 pupils to 55,000 and is recognised as the world’s largest school. Size, however, is not its distinguishing feature but rather the global citizenship focus, which underpins CMS’s educational ethos. Dr Gandhi has crafted meaningful initiatives to create a wider set of circumstances for peace and conflict prevention at a local, national and international level, including 28 international events aimed at inspiring world unity.”
Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast, conferred the degree on Dr Gandhi for his distinguished services to education. Dr Gandhi’s daughter Nita Gandhi Forouhi who is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, received the award on Dr Gandhi’s behalf as he could not attend the ceremony in person.
For more information, please see the website of Queen's University Belfast - https://www.qub.ac.uk/home/chancellor-installation-ceremony/honorary-graduands/



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Lucknow, 25 September:In a matter of pride for the country and the city, Dr Jagdish Gandhi, Founder of City Montessori School, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Social Science Honoris Causa by Queen’s University Belfast, UK. The citation of the Honorary Doctorate read, “Dr Gandhi is a world-renowned educationist and a true visionary in his field. He co-founded (with his wife Dr Bharti Gandhi) the City Montessori School (CMS) in Lucknow, India, in 1959. Sixty years later, the school has grown from 5 pupils to 55,000 and is recognised as the world’s largest school. Size, however, is not its distinguishing feature but rather the global citizenship focus, which underpins CMS’s educational ethos. Dr Gandhi has crafted meaningful initiatives to create a wider set of circumstances for peace and conflict prevention at a local, national and international level, including 28 international events aimed at inspiring world unity.”
Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast, conferred the degree on Dr Gandhi for his distinguished services to education. Dr Gandhi’s daughter Nita Gandhi Forouhi who is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, received the award on Dr Gandhi’s behalf as he could not attend the ceremony in person.
Expressing happiness, Dr Gandhi said, “I am humbled to receive this honour. It is great recognition for the entire CMS family and the belief that our parents and citizens of Lucknow have placed in us. This recognition has been possible because of our dedicated teachers and brilliant students who have put the school on the world map and earned global acclaim with their enormous achievements.”
For more information, please see the website of Queen's University Belfast - https://www.qub.ac.uk/home/chancellor-installation-ceremony/honorary-graduands/

Brief Biography of Dr Jagdish Gandhi, Founder, CMS

Dr Jagdish Gandhi is a renowned Indian Educationist and Founder of World’s largest School – the City Montessori School, popularly known as CMS, located in Lucknow, India. Dr Gandhi is a peace activist who has travelled globally and has been building bridges of unity and peace for more than five decades. For his long-standing contributions to education in peace, the United Nations awarded the prestigious UNESCO Prize for Peace Education for the year 2002 of US$30,000/- to his unique creation – the City Montessori School, popularly known as CMS, which Dr Gandhi founded in 1959 with 5 children and borrowed capital of Rupees 300/- (Less than US $10 at that time). The school is listed in the Guinness Book since 1999 as the World’s Largest School in a single city with the present enrollment of over 56,000 pupils for the session 2018-2019. Dr Gandhi and his school have received several honours such as Key to the Georgetown (USA), Gusi Peace Prize, Philippines, Nuclear Free Future Special Achievement Award, Germany, and Changemakers’ Innovation Award, USA. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Education by Russia’s Bashkir State Pedagogical University in the year 2009.

 Dr Gandhi believes that World Judiciary is the last and only hope for survival of humanity and therefore he has been leading a campaign on behalf of 56,000 CMS students representing world's over two billion children and generations yet-to-be-born. The highlight of the campaign if the annual World Judiciary Summits and the International Conferences of Chief Justices of the World in which 1299 Hon’ble Chief Justices, Judges and Heads of States from 136 countries of the world have participated since 2001. The 21st Annual Conference, the World Judiciary Summit will be held from4 to 10 November 2020  at CMS Kanpur Road Campus, Lucknow. For more information please visit www.cmseducation.org/article51

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