CMI VISION OF EDUCATION
We, the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, after the example of
our founder Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara, consider education
as the integral formation of the human person for the fulfilment of
his individual and social responsibilities.
Our educational endeavours aim at forming leaders who are intellectually competent, spiritually mature, morally upright, psychologically integrated, physically healthy and socially acceptable, who
will champion the cause of justice, love, truth and peace, and who
are ever open to further growth.
The secret of the success of our educational institutions is a
community of teachers who are committed to their vocation, professionally competent, morally upright, just and humane in dealings, culturally sensitive and who grow in the true vision of education.
We aspire towards creating a just and humane society where
dignity of the human person is respected, where unjust social structures are challenged, where our cultural heritage of ahimsa, religious harmony and national unity are upheld, and where the poor
and the marginalized are specially taken care of.
We have to reach out to the families, primarily of the students, to
assist them in their needs, to share in their joys and sorrows, and to
help them experience love and freedom so that the students realize
that our educational institutions are an extension of their homes.
Our institutions are open to all students irrespective of caste
and creed; they are accepted and cherished as they are and are
helped to grow in their cultural, social and religious traditions. As
they are privileged to be in our institutions, they will also have the
right to get acquainted with the person of Jesus Christ and his Gospel. Being institutions established and administered by and for a
minority community based on religion, they will give preference to
Christians in admissions and appointments and have a special concern for the faith formation of the Christian youth.
Our institutions are also open to society at large by making their
resources available for the ongoing education and growth.
For the realization of this CMI goal of education, we invite
students, parents and teachers to share this vision and to cooperate with us wholeheartedly.