An Exceptional Guiding Force For Many Students

Mr. Albin Anthony- C.O.O., Sacred Heart School, Kalyan

  Mr. Albin Anthony, C.O.O. of ‘Sacred Heart School, Kalyan’ is also a part of his family business in the fields of construction, manufacturing engineering equipment’s and setting up chemical plants. He holds a degree of B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University, and is involved in numerous social endeavors as well. Being extremely proficient in academics and sports since childhood, his parents always guided him to confront the downfalls in an optimistic manner, which ultimately backed him in developing leadership qualities.

Mr. Albin Anthony, who is a guide to many; 18 years ago envisioned setting up a school for imparting excellent education besides instilling life skills in students which in today’s world is imperative.

He firmly believes – “Education is not only about theoretical learning but it also involves learning life skills, imbibing technological efficiency to adapt ourselves to this ever-challenging world of artificial intelligence and become dexterous global citizens.”

His parents being the guiding force, used to inspire him never to succumb to difficulties, and always enlightened him on the path of Wisdom, Compassion & Dynamism. He labels struggles as opportunities, and believes that each obstacle he faced was apparently an opportunity that pushed him hard to achieve his goals.

“For any country to address its economic, social, gender-based, health, environmental or any other problem and to address the disparities faced by huge multitude of masses innovation is vital”, reflects Mr. Albin Anthony.

He believes that “The innovations available must be economical as well as easily reachable to everyone; and for nurturing innovation, creativity and values right from the school level is an absolute necessity”, adding, “Obtaining education will become easy and economical once everybody starts using information technology and communicate via social networking.”

He presents his viewpoint that as information and technology will make things easy for us, but on the other hand, also poses an underlying huge risk. Enumerating the risks of using extensive social media, he shares that people chatting for long hours might not be able to communicate and exchange ideas face to face, which poses a huge risk on human dimensions.  He strongly believes that schools will always remain relevant and will have their own importance.

He witnessed bringing in latest technology and innovation in school, yet helping children maintain human values, to refrain themselves from acting as human-robots, as biggest challenge for schools these days.

“Schools must accept the challenge and become a nursery for nurturing among children the human relationships, interpersonal dynamics, traditions, values, culture, leadership and most importantly person-to-person contacts and relationships”, says Mr. Albin Anthony.

Viewing achieving good education as the top priority for all parents, inspired him to commence a premium school like ‘Sacred Heart School’, that is the right place for quality of education for this generation. And eventually his school has bagged “Best Preschool Award’ at World Education Summit 2018, ‘Best School Award’ at World Education Summit 2018 for Innovation in Pedagogy, and ‘Best Skill Development Initiative Award’ at The Global Educators Fest 2018, Udaipur.

Mr. Albin Anthony, who has won ‘Times Power Men 2018 Award’ and ‘Hindustan Times Top School Award 2018’ for his school, closes the talk by sharing, “I personally believe that it’s not me who built a sense of uniqueness in me, rather institutions and our approach towards it make us unique.” He has won numerous awards for his rich 18 years of contribution to the education sector, including, ‘Top Schools of India Ranking 2018’, by Digital Learning, ‘Best School Award’ at Brainfeed School Excellence Award 2018, ‘Green School Awards 2018’, Centre For Science And Environment and ‘Edtech Review Awards’ for Edtech Savvy School of the year (West) 2018.