The time of formal education is the most prime time of our life. This decides more or less where we would find ourselves in our life. When I refer to education I don't mean just school, books and the hours of study. It is more than just that. Schools are the second home for the children and for the teachers workshop to put together behaviours, etiquettes and other life styles.

Our former President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam who was a visionary and proponent of education believed that students play a significant role to transform India into a developing country. He would say that the best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom. All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. Excellence happens not by accident. It is a process. The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers. Creativity is seeing the same thing but thinking differently. Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. We at Mount Carmel School, Balachaur is committed to giving wider skies and fresh new grounds to our students to soar like the eagles. It's not in giving up or avoiding challenges but in facing them that one gains life living skills. We are oriented not only to academics but to making responsible and conscious citizens who can make this world and their neighbourhood better. They learn to work in groups, learn to move together, feel for the other, compete by bettering oneself and not by desiring the defeat of the other.

I wish the entire family members an awakening to dream of a better tomorrow and aspire constantly to soar the heights.

Adv.Fr.Manoj Sebastian

Director