‘Education sans discipline produces bad citizens’

A W Gunawardhana

Matara central correspondent

‘Vidya Dadathie Vinayan’ means education and discipline should go together. Disciplined child develops feeling of love and kindness to those who are in distress.

He refrains from hating others in terms of caste or creed, he treats all alike.

It should be the criterion of every teacher to build disciplined children, the former Polhena Maha Vidyalaya Principal and the Secretary of Matara Sasanaraksaka Bala Mandalaya Sasthravedi Chief Incumbent of Polhena Purana Maha Viharaya Ven Ehalape Yathirathana Thera said. He was speaking at a meeting at Polhena Purana Maha Viharaya.

Over a thousand consisting of pupils and teachers of Daham schools were present.

Ven Gorakawela Sarada Thera administered the Pansil.

Ven Ehalape Yathirathana Thera further said that our society has now developed to be one that breaks Five Precepts of Buddhism rather than observing them. This is the cause for unrest in the society. Dharmadveepa has turned to be an Adarmadveepa.

It should be our duty to make a determined effort to re-convert our country to Dharmadveepa. It should begin from the school with the assistance of parents and other elders,” he said.