The role of Christian missionaries in the field of education is the most outstanding contribution to society for its development. Years back, at a time when education was not given much importance in the society, the missionaries realized that education is a must for a civilized society. 

The missionaries went to the interior villages and started schools for imparting education. To attain convent school education people migrated to those places where there are convent schools and the places also got established. 

Christian missionary schools never discriminate against anyone on the basis of caste, creed, or religion. The missionaries were always feeling with the poor and the downtrodden. 

The way of the Christians is the way of patience, love and non-violence. Whenever the Christians are attacked, instead of taking revenge and retaliating they try to defend themselves legally. It's not because they are cowards but because they don’t believe in bloodshed and war. They know that violence begets only violence and violence can never bring peace. They don’t take the weapon of destruction but their weapon is the weapon of love and patience. The extremists who are waiting to attack the Christian institutions are confident that they will not be attacked back by the Christians.

In north India, it has become very difficult for missionaries to run the schools now. If they violate the law of the land, legal proceedings have to be taken against them instead of leaving the mob to their institutions to harass them. The system of law and order becomes numb when religiously and politically motivated people trespass into Christian education institutions and utter religious and political slogans. If such incidents are taking place continuously it’s either with the backdoor permission of the ruling party or the governments have become handicapped to control them when they create terror in the minds of the minorities.

Christians always try to abide by the law of the land and the educational institutions try to follow the rules and regulations. Now the extremist mob is becoming the police, law imposers, and judges in the convent schools when any complaint is filed against the missionaries.  

An educational institution is a temple of knowledge. Now it has become a trend in some North Indian states that the students approach extremist groups with complaints against a school or a teacher, and the following day they come in a group and trespass into the institution, drawing the students out of the class forcibly and lead the protest in the school. Many times, the police force remains spectators when damages are caused to the institution.

What right do the ABVP, VHP, Sangh Parivar, RSS, or BJP have to take the law into your hands? Are they becoming the self-declared police force and judges in the country? The Christians are running schools and not factories of conversion. 

The convent schools have become number one in every city because of their policy of zero tolerance in maintaining discipline. The attack of the mob on convent schools is a very dangerous situation for the education system and the future generation. Real education is not possible without discipline. The more the schools become strict the more the students rebel. A dedicated teacher and a socially committed education institution cannot dance according to the tune of the students. 

The State should make laws so that students should have a respectful fear towards the teachers. Without that, it is impossible to maintain discipline in the schools. The elders have to train the children to accept the corrections positively with an open heart and mind instead of instigating them to rebel against the teachers. Teachers are not the enemies of the students, but they are the well-wishers, mentors, and friends of them. 

The trend of a mob holding protest marches to the schools is very dangerous to the education system itself. Bringing the politics of religion and injecting hatred in the tender minds of the students toward the missionaries and the teachers is an alarming situation in India.

The number of admissions in the convent schools shows that the allegations of conversion and mocking of the Hindu deities in the missionary schools are baseless.

If you are not satisfied with the education given by the missionaries, if you are skeptical that the missionaries are converting your children in the missionary schools, if you think that the missionary schools are mocking the Hindu deities, better you don’t send your children to the missionary schools. If your children are studying there, take your children immediately from the missionary school and get admission in any other school. 

The religious fanatics and the politically biased people think that the missionary schools are factories of conversion but the genuine people and the parents know that the convent schools are the most disciplined education institutions and the allegations of conversion and mocking the Hindu deities are baseless. 

When a teacher takes a class in a school, he/she cannot limit the class to the textbook; a teacher has to explain to the students with current examples, stories, incidents, experiences, possibilities, comparisons, jocks, pictures, gestures, etc. so that the child may understand the concept in a better way. The teacher may have to speak about the religions of the world, castes, languages, cultures and traditions, civilizations, historical backgrounds, politics, and so many other things like the explanation of the human body parts, the process of growth, hormonal changes, and sex education. If we give a religious or discriminatory explanation to these, if we sue the teacher under POCSO Act, how can a teacher educate the students? Do you wish that your children be taught as parrots? Education is not learning by rote and vomiting it in the exam paper, but education is the entire development and growth of the students.

If a mob attacks schools for what teachers said in classrooms, it becomes impossible for a teacher to carry on his/her job. It is the duty of the government to assure fearless working conditions for a teacher.  

The Christians are minorities and it is the fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution of India to run and administer their own education institutions in the country. But the fanatic groups are making allegations and attacking the Christian education institutions and it becomes difficult for them to run and administer their own institutions due to the public interference in them.

It is important that the governments, especially of the north Indian states, should protect the rights of the missionary schools; they should take action against the people who create terror and instigate the students to rebel against the teachers and the management of education institutions.