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| Wednesday, 10 November 2004 |
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| Unity and harmony through understanding each other's culture by L.B. Wijayasiri in Kandy Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake said that it was necessary to create a social pattern in our country based on a system of education that initiated the national unity and peace in the school class room itself. He made those observations at a ceremony held at Mahamaya Vidyalaya Auditorium at a presentation of letters of appointments to 138 Diploma holders in Tamil Language medium passed out of Sri Pada College of Education, Hatton. Those new Tamil Language teachers were posted to Tamil Medium Schools. Even though the population in this country was 17 million, the opportunities available for them to exchange their views due to the langauge barrier. The people should know the language of each other so that they could exchange their views. Then only they could get an understanding on the culture and social pattern of each other. Then only the unity and harmony could be flourished in the country, said Sarath Ekanayake. Chief Minister Ekanayake emphasised that opportunities should be made available for children in schools to the language spoken by Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim children, so that the hatred against each nationality would cease to exist. He also said that in order to remedy the acute shortage of Tamil Langauge teachers in schools in the Central Province, large number of those Tamil Medium teachers originally picked to be posted to schools in the North and East had been appointed schools in the Central Province on the directions of President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga. |
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