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Discipline, good behaviour should be part of good education - Archbishop

by Ja-Ela Group Correspondent

The educational system in Sri Lanka now limits to gathering knowledge but for education to be completed. There are other conditions such as discipline and good behaviour which could only be attained with a religious background, said the Archbishop of Colombo, Most Rev. Dr. Oswald Gomis. He was speaking as Chief Guest at the first Ceremonial Conferment of Academic Degrees at the Centre for Higher Education in Kanuwana, Ja-Ela.

Archbishop Gomis said that in Sri Lanka the tuition classes have taken the place of formal education and the formal education during the morning at schools have now been rendered useless. Parents were compelled to send their children in the afternoon for tuition paying large sums of money negating the 'free education' concept in the country.

He said that the entire educational system had become 'Mudalalikaranaya' nullifying the concept of 'free education' and leaving the student behaviour and discipline to deteriorate to dangerous proportions. He attributed this deterioration to the taking away of the religious element in education and pointed out that other than knowledge gathering, education will only be complete if there were other elements such as discipline and behaviour.

Rev. Fr. Nicholas Batepola, Director, CHE said that a quality education that empowers the poor coupled with their moral and spiritual formation is the vision of their institute with no commercial or profit motive. During the last five years, the CHE has trained 102 students to follow the course leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts and 112 students to follow course leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Commerce or Management.

Certificates were conferred to eight graduands who were successful in the Bachelor of Arts and ten graduands who were successful in Bachelor of Commerce (Special).

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