Principal's Message

The Spirit of Education

“Everything we do not have at our birth And which we need when we are grown is given us by education’’. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)

       Education is another name for civilization, liberation and empowerment, because it civilizes, it liberates and it empowers everyone who receives it. It is believed that education is must for everyone to be civilized, though the entire educated are not civilized and the entire uneducated are not uncivilized. However, it is true that education purges the impure; ennobles the ignoble and tames the wild in us. It gives light to the eyes and wings to the mind. Above all it is pivotal for the integral growth of every human person. In “Republic” Plato highlights that true education whatever that may be will have the greatest tendency to civilize and humanize people in their relation to one another and to those who are under their protection.

       Education is the unfailing treasure for everyone and its radiance never ceases. Youth is a great asset for a nation to build a promising future and for the realization of the common dreams. Today more than ever we need to focus on the education of youth. We need more educated and responsible youth to rout corruption and defeat exploitation. Corruption cripples’ growth and perpetuates poverty. We need to raise educated and integrated young warriors to fight the enemies with the face of corruption and oppression.

    The ideal motto of our time is ‘each one educates one’. Every citizen should shoulder this noble responsibility with the sense of joy and pride. Failing to do it would be a great disservice to the society and in a wider sense to humanity. A nation depends very much on the youth. What the youth force is today will be our tomorrow.

Education is the fundamental right. True education instilling the values in our hearts not only liberates us but also transforms the people around. Our aim should be to impart value-oriented education that enables people to live and die for truth. The mistake that we often make is that we identify education with the amount of information we receive. But the true education is not the information we receive but the values we live. Swami Vivekananda has rightly observed “if you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life you have more education than any man who has learnt by heart the whole library.” If these values are deep-rooted within, we need not struggle to decide when we are challenged by circumstances.

 So let us lead everyone to the fountain of education to drink from and as we pursue this noble mission let us remember that ultimately what counts is not the amount of information that we ingest but the values that we live and stand for in life.

Empowerment would not be enduring without education. Age-old wisdom teaches us that idea is power, and knowledge is liberation. It is education that effects and sustains empowerment. Transformation through the integration of all into the knowledge fold should be our endeavor. Moreover, this dream shall be realized only when they learned and educated and well fed and well housed enter into the lives of ignorant, uneducated and the unfed. I strongly believe that this is the true spirit of education.

 “The aim of education is not

the acquisition of knowledge, although important

nor the acquisition of technical skills, though essential in modern society,

but the development of that bent of mind,

that attitude of reason, that spirit of democracy

which will make us responsible citizens”.

{Dr. Radhakrishnan}

Sunny Mattathil Varghese
Principal
Christ School Veraval