Prof. Your point about the education system is spot on! We need a drastic educational reform. Today, children are not encouraged to ask questions. Also, the subjects need to be revised. Also hats off for making the point that education and insight means two different things. We will definitely get a system change with neither Ranil nor Sajith running the country, the change that is welcome by the people of this country.
When we talk about education reform we have to also talk about mental health. Are we raising our children in ways that they grow up to be adults who act with integrity, empathy, discipline, honesty etc. to do this we also need adults who are capable of modelling such behaviour. Religion has failed in delivering on this in Sri Lanka. In a country that does not protect your right to not have a religion we have a nation that is largely morally corrupt. Yes there are a few exceptions. But as a rule we lack discipline and integrity. Based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs we can argue that until basic needs are met we can’t think about things like integrity. if we are to develop as a nation we have to focus on mental health and a sense of self. Especially to get rid of this mentality of subservience.
How a country that produces the likes of Rohan Pethiyagoda and the people GGY team and many more alike, also suffers from debilitating mental laziness that Mr Pethiyagoda referred to? Did education system fail our children or the village temple to blame for the rotten culture?
‘In Sri Lanka, 5800 are born with a birth defect annually, and 11% die before their first birthday making it the second leading infant mortality cause, and 1900 stillbirths occur per year’, WHO. Why is no one talking about this?
Prof. Your point about the education system is spot on! We need a drastic educational reform. Today, children are not encouraged to ask questions. Also, the subjects need to be revised.
Also hats off for making the point that education and insight means two different things. We will definitely get a system change with neither Ranil nor Sajith running the country, the change that is welcome by the people of this country.
Definitely!-otherwise how some Colombo 7 idiots vote for this stupid "system change"😅😅
Salute you Sir
When we talk about education reform we have to also talk about mental health. Are we raising our children in ways that they grow up to be adults who act with integrity, empathy, discipline, honesty etc. to do this we also need adults who are capable of modelling such behaviour. Religion has failed in delivering on this in Sri Lanka. In a country that does not protect your right to not have a religion we have a nation that is largely morally corrupt. Yes there are a few exceptions. But as a rule we lack discipline and integrity. Based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs we can argue that until basic needs are met we can’t think about things like integrity. if we are to develop as a nation we have to focus on mental health and a sense of self. Especially to get rid of this mentality of subservience.
Excellent Rohan 👍
From what I have read and heard NPP has a definite emphasis on eduction.
My vote for any party that promise not to burrow.
Nice
How a country that produces the likes of Rohan Pethiyagoda and the people GGY team and many more alike, also suffers from debilitating mental laziness that Mr Pethiyagoda referred to? Did education system fail our children or the village temple to blame for the rotten culture?
‘In Sri Lanka, 5800 are born with a birth defect annually, and 11% die before their first birthday making it the second leading infant mortality cause, and 1900 stillbirths occur per year’, WHO. Why is no one talking about this?
There are no unicorns. That’s another Sri Lankan problem.