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Ten year Presidential initiative for Trilingual
Sri Lanka:
Promoting English as life skill
People thought that English was for the elite.
And the elite used it as a sword - in Sinhala it is kaduva. The
elite used knowledge of English as a kaduva to cut down the others
from the villages. This was very prominent in high society,
especially in Colombo; they thought the people who didn't know
English must be somebody to be looked down upon. Now it has changed
and we want to change this attitude
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On poor ‘undersiding’ of an embroidery
A telephone conversation floats down the year
1990. I can’t remember whether I made the call or if Kanishka
Goonewardena did. He was in Los Angeles and I in Boston. We were
both students and both having a tough time with respect to
heart-matters.
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Education - Not the monopoly of brightest
Education then is not just a passage to
employment or a livelihood as we have been accustomed to view but a
means that adds luster to a person’s talents augmenting his
capabilities, for the greater good of the society and human
civilization.
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