Transformation Through Education
Keywords:
Value transformation, Character formation, Social reformerAbstract
St. Chavara Kuriakose Elias was one of the greatest educationalist and social reformer. St. Chavara acknowledged education as a mean to transform the ordinary people and to raise them to the dignified lifestyle. St. Chavara had the vision of transferring good values, holistic education for the development of all domains of human being, value education in the family, and education to sustain individual and societal development. St. Chavara’s vision for education had great influence on the developments of the individual, family, society, and nation.
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