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The wisdom of the
early missionaries who conceived the school as a valuable adjunct of the Church
can never be questioned. It is said
of Rhenius that whenever he found the soil resistant to a church, he planted a
school. The innate regard among
Indians for the schoolmaster as the 'Guru' was used to good purpose; and in most
cases the village school was the forerunner of the village church.
Today dotted
all over the district there are 490 Primary Schools and 155 Middle Schools run
by the Tirunelveli Diocese. Long
before the Government paid serious attention to elementary education, there has
been this network of Christian schools promoting literacy among the villagers
and testifying to Christ. They have
been the nucleus of the Tirunelveli Church; and most of their teachers, who are
voluntary catechists in their respective congregations, are the mainstay of the
rural church.
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