Free Education proposals and tuition
Kannangara’s family background, the painful
experiences he had as a child and more so, the juxtaposed
socio-religious situations he faced in school and outside,
certainly, would have convinced him that a revolutionary reformist
attitude in education was the need of the day in order to bring
about a national revival for the creation of a united Sri Lanka
where human justice prevailed,
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Socio-economic scene
Thinking straight
We, as a nation, all need to be re-educated, and
our brains re-programmed. We need to have check lists and
flow-charts embossed on our minds. We need to recognise the end
result of each action or decision, on both our own sphere and on
others. Until we do so, no matter what our level of income as a
country might be, we will remain a ‘less-developed country’
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Education for peace: redefining the future of the nation
Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena recently
stated that the country has put a full stop to an era when students
belonging to different races looked at each other with suspicion. He
further said that in this new era, Sri Lanka is faced with the
challenge to use education for peace and sustainable development and
the launch of the recent National Action Plan is an initial measure
taken by the government to face that challenge.
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Evolution of a nation
The tiny pear shaped island known as the ‘pearl
of the Indian Ocean’, whose material treasures and spiritual values
acted as a magnet to foreign travellers around 350 BC was known as
Taprobane, Simundu, Salke, Silv-Diva, Serndib, Zeilan and Ceylon
under foreign domination from 1505 to 1948.
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