Background
I have been associated with Catholic educational institutions all my life—both as a student and as a teacher. I stepped into a convent school at the age of three. I am fifty-two now. I am the Head of the Department of English in a First Grade College run by Sisters where only young women study. All my life I have been surrounded by Catholic values, vision, mission, motto and the like and I think I am fairly well-equipped to write on this topic. But I also know I have to distance myself a bit if I am to write anything at all.
I am me because of what I received in St Joseph’s Nursery School run by the Canossian Sisters, St Joseph’s Lower, Upper, Middle, Higher & Secondary Schools again run by the same team, St Joseph’s College and St Berchman’s College (where I did my UG & PG) and, of course, Bishop Kurialacherry College, Amalagiri, that made a teacher out of me—all of them beautifully, convincingly and unwaveringly Christian/Catholic institutions then and now. (This is what I meant. The Lucasian dilemma!).
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Prof. Rekha Mathews
