Director Message
Ritesh Jaiswal (M.Tech, MME, IIT Kanpur, Research Scientist, IMRC, PML, Navi Mumbai)
First of all I would like to discuss about the education and what does the education mean? As we know, education is to go to schools, learn how to read and write, to pass examinations and to play a few games; and do some activities and after you leave the school, you go to the college, there again study very very hard for a few months or a few years, pass an examination and then get a job; and then you forget all about what you learnt. Is it that, what we call education? Is it all that we do?
You see what we call living is to get a job, to have children, raise a family and to know how to read and write and able to read newspapers or magazines, to discuss, to cleverly argue about something or other. That is what we call education, is it not? Have you noticed your own parents, your own elder people? They have passed examinations, they have got some jobs or involved in business and they know how to read and write. Is it all what we call education?
Education is something much more different. It is to help you not only to get a job in the world but also how to meet the world. You know what the world is. In the world, there is a competition. You know what is the completion means- each man out of himself, struggling to get the best pushing the other aside. In the world every man trying to get a better job, to keep rising; if you are a clerk, you try to get little higher and so fight all the time. Have you noticed it ? If you have a car, you want a bigger so, there is that constant fight going on, not only within ourselves but with all our neighbours.
Proper education is to help the student to meet this life, so that he/she understands it, he/she won’t succumb, he/she won’t be crushed under it as most us are. People, ideas, country, climate, food, public opinion-all that is constantly squeezing you, constantly pushing you in a particular direction in which the society wants you to go. Your education must enable you to understand the pressure, not to yield to it but to understand it and break through it, so that you, as an individual, as a human being are capable of a great deal of initiative, and not merely traditional thinking. That is real education.
You know Schools these days are not only meant to attain information and knowledge, rather they are platforms for collaboration of thoughts and ideas. I believe that each and every student have a lot of talent which must be nurtured to crystal sharp perfection, so as to inculcate in the child a confidence so strong that when he/she is asked to face the world, he /she never flinches even once in the arena of stark competition.
Our institution aim is to provide value and quality based real education to enable each child to grow towards a reflective and responsible adulthood. Our quality education programme helps in the development of essential skills and attitude for productive life. We, at St. Xavier’s High School, equip the students with wings of imagination to accomplish their dream and inspire them to fly high.
“The past few centuries have been of Goddess Lakshmi (Wealth). The current and coming centuries will belong to Goddess Saraswati (Knowledge). The road to Goddess Lakshmi passes through the gates of Goddess Saraswati.” Jai Hind