By Shridhar Sainath Iyer – Director (Academics) – Matru Vidyalaya

The motto of Matru Vidyalaya “Life must blossom like a Flower” an inspirational quote by “Mother of Pondicherry” and here at Matru Vidyalaya we understand that the education of a human being should begin at birth and continue throughout his life. The aim of education is not to prepare a man to succeed in life and society, but to increase his perfectibility to its utmost.

 To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. Education is an invaluable possession for every living being to have learnt to know himself and to master himself. To know oneself means to know the motives of one’s actions and reactions, the why and the how of all that happens in oneself.

The finest present one can give to a child would be to teach him to know himself and to master himself. To learn for the sake of knowledge, to study in order to know the secrets of Nature and life, to educate oneself in order to grow in consciousness, to discipline oneself in order to become master of oneself, to overcome one’s weaknesses, incapacities and ignorance, to prepare oneself to advance in life towards a goal that is nobler and vaster, more generous and more true.