About School
Our Patron St. Augustine's
St. Augustine , Considered as the greatest of the fathers of western churches , was the son of a pagan father and a Christian church. He lived between 354 an d430 A.D. and was a witness to the sake of the Roman Empire at the hands of the German Barbarians in 410 A.D. St. Augustine asserted that the ruin of Rome was the result of divine will and Christianly alone could save the world form destruction. He developed his ideas is his great work De Civitate Dei (City of God).
Main Ideas of St. Augustine's
St. Augustine’s entire philosophy centers round three principal ideas of cosmology , epistemology and ethics. In the first place he held that the God was present in everything in varying degrees and therefore everything has varying degrees of goodness. Even matter was essentially good because God made it. Secondly , he held the source of knowledge did not lay outside but within. Thirdly , he pleased for subordination of the body to the spirit and spirit to God. He pleased that we should love each other as God loves us and this we can do if derive a power of love from Him.
Ebenstein “St. Augustine, the greatest of the church” father stood at the turning points of two worlds , that of Antiquity and Christianity”.
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori discovered the world – famous Montessori of education for young children. She believed that each child possesses an inherent creative potential and drive to learn independently. She believed that even little children should be treated with as much consideration as adults. She developed simple education aids for children like colored beads , small wooden slabs and cylinders. She trained children to do things for themselves and perform ordinary household tasked in the efficient ways. The Montessori system is very popular in India. Education must be active help given to the normal expansion of the life to the child.
We squander health in search of wealth and then we squander wealth in search of health.