Education

The seven Dutch Missionary Pioneer Sisters arrived in India on 24th Feb 1904 in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. The beginnings of the society of JMJ Education edifice dates back to June 1904. With a few children from the villages, the sisters started a small Lower Elementary School. The sisters started keeping children with them. This was the beginning of the boarding schools in the society of JMJ, India. Gradually sisters won the confidence of the people and more girls started coming to our schools and boarding’s from villages. There was a slow and steady growth in the strength of the school.

Rev. Sr. Stanislas Swamikannu Pillai

Sr. Stanislaus is the first Indian member to join the Society of JMJ. She is the founder, the mastermind and backbone of JMJ Education apostolate in India. With her a new chapter, a new era, ushered in the Apostolate of Education in the Society of JMJ, A.P., India. A tiny Elementary School started by the pioneers was raised eventually to a full pledged High School, University Education and College of Education for Women in Andhra Pradesh.

VISION – MISSION

We shall commit ourselves to the goals of Christian Education – to form the human person to fullness of life.
We shall witness in our lives and apostolate to the divine, human and universal values.
We shall have a genuine concern for all dimensions of life of the poorest of the poor.
We shall focus our attention on vocational and job–oriented courses.
We shall have as our thrust – to establish Rehabilitation Homes for the handicapped, the impaired, the underprivileged and to Non – Formal Education.
We shall reach out to the remote corners of India where there is genuine need and distress.

Objectives

To embody Christian values in our teaching and life more consciously.
To be human and humane like Jesus, our Guru, who was so human and Humane in his ministry.
To have at heart to work more earnestly for the integral formation of the human person.
To be realistic in our preferential option for the poorest of the poor – the lowest, the last and the least.
To have a right hierarchy of values – moral, religious, social, national etc.
To cultivate an appropriate attitude towards our lay co-workers-recognize their professional and personal qualifications-which often are superior to us religious.