“ The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ”
- Carl Rogers 

Silver Hills Public School at Paroppady, Kozhikode, is a co-educational English medium senior secondary school affiliated to CBSE New Delhi. The minority institution run by St Thomas Province, Kozhikode is one of the several leading educational institutions envisioned and administered by fathers of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI). The school provides a caring and supportive environment in which all students can develop their talents to the full in an atmosphere of ideal learning opportunities within and beyond the classroom. The school ensures that all students are able to develop morally, spiritually and socially, apart from acquiring skills, knowledge and personal responsibility with a broad vision, understanding and experience of the world.

Chavara combined a life of action and contemplation. He was a pioneer on many fronts. He was a litterateur, a torchbearer in the theatre movement, a frontiersman of mass literacy initiatives including setting up of a Sanskrit school for the masses, a promoter of novelty who introduced print technology and successfully operated a press. He was also an environmental conservationist. He was a true secularist and nationalist whose activities reached every section of society irrespective of caste, creed or religion.