Sree Narayana Central School
Sree Narayana Central School Mavelikara provides an educational experience designed to promote the maximum potential of its students in a free and fare atmosphere conducive for all round development and success. ‘Get freedom through education’… is the motto of the school. The ideals of Sree Narayana Guru are the guide posts that lead the school life and activities ahead. A well-planned Academics schedule, extra- curricular activities and a thriving school house system to encourage co-operation, competition and team spirit makes the school a memorable experience for students. The School visualizes empowerment of our students with knowledge, skill, character and a passion for learning, so that they thrive as contributing members in a diverse and changing society. The School is owned and managed by Sree Narayana Samskarika Samithy (Reg No.T156/80 under Charitable Societies Act XII/1955, Thiruvananthapuram)- Mavelikara Taluk Unit.
Sree Narayana Central School Mavelikara stands for excellence, perfection and continuously strives to set the highest standards in the field of education. It has withstood the changes of time and approaches in the education sector. The dedicated and devoted members of the Sree Narayana Samskarika Samithy Mavelikara Taluk Unit visualized its establishment 25 years back to serve the country by educating the pupils hailing from backward sections on the most modern lines. The quality of education determines the destiny of the student and the society. The school looks forward towards greater challenges and greater responsibilities to train the youth to save humanity and the nation.
The school has been a pioneer institution over the last 35 years in all the activities and marching strongly ahead in the pursuit of achieving the best and the noblest. Here students get opportunities to acquire various personal traits and skills to deal with life experiences. The education system in the school integrates an active sports schedule, community service and training programs apart from Academics and other co-curricular activities for the all round development of students. Emphasis is laid on the development of the child’s physical, intellectual, emotional, aesthetic and social aspects of personality.
Sree Narayana Guru
Narayana Guru (1856–1928), also known as Sree Narayana Guru Swami, was a saint, sadhu and social reformer of India. The Guru was born into an Ezhava family, in an era when people from backward communities like the Ezhavas faced much social injustices in the caste-ridden Kerala society. Gurudevan, as he was fondly known to his followers, led Reform movement in Kerala, revolted against casteism and worked on propagating new values of freedom in spirituality and of social equality, thereby transforming the Kerala society and as such he is adored as a prophet.
Narayana Guru is revered for his Vedic knowledge, poetic proficiency, and openness to the views of others, non-violent philosophy and his resolve to set aright social wrongs. Narayana Guru was instrumental in setting the spiritual foundations for social reform in today’s Kerala and was one of the most successful social reformers who tackled caste issues in India. He demonstrated a path to social emancipation without invoking the dualism of the oppressed and the oppressor.
Guru stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process he brushed aside the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu religious convention of Chaturvarna.