The Height of Foreign Mountains Source:Thomia One of the most dramatic stories told in Thomia is that of STC’s struggle to maintain its independence in the face of an increasingly intrusive State authority that would eventually take over almost every other school in the island. This struggle, which lasted some twenty years, was ultimately a contest between two great cultural forces – one westward-looking and informed by Christian ethics and Enlightenment ideas, the other nationalistic and inward-looking – and inevitably, much more powerful. (Orig. pub. 2018 in notesfromceylon.com) One of the principal causes of Lanka’s slow but inexorable reversion to barbarism is our national education policy, which despite much meddling with the details has retained the shape it assumed many years before Independence. Influenced by Sinhalese-Buddhist ‘nationalist’ imperatives and animated by a vengeful intent to destroy the power and privileges of the educated English-speaking elite of his time, this policy ...
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Education is a Right, not a Privilege – By Umanda Jayobandara Source : Umanda Jayobandara Linkedin This picture belongs to Punniyaselvan, a first person from Glasow, Nanu Oya, to graduate from University of Colombo. This is a huge win for everyone in that village and for free education in Sri Lanka as a whole. I don’t want to say more, but this picture tells the whole story of this young man and the people who cared about him and the way he never forgot them. Everyone should be able to get an education, and it should be free for everyone. I stand up for free education and fight for it with all my heart. Everyone here in Sri Lanka gets a free education all the way to university, thanks to Honourable C.W.W. Kannangara, who was the father of free education in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a great country with ...
Dec 27, 2022
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Royal: The History of a Hostel & the Sociology of a School-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Uditha Devapriya, in The Island, 2 July 2022, with input from Uthpala Wijesooriya, Pasindu Nimsara, and Keshan Themira & archival images courtesy of the J. R. Jayewardene Centre Somewhere in July, the Hostel of Royal College, Colombo will unveil its annual Day. Organised after seven long years, the Hostel Day will incorporate a number of aesthetic, cultural, and sports events. Many of them have been held over the last two months and a few are yet to be finalised. In the face of an unprecedented economic crisis, it has been a challenge to have held them at all. For the residents of the Hostel, it has also been a baptism of fire, no less than a continuation of what was once a long tradition. the young co-authors Royal Colleg Hostet – Group Photo The Royal College Hostel has not had ...
Jul 5, 2022
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SIR DON BARON JAYATILAKA: THE EPOCH MAKER-by Sudeep Perera Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka was born on February 13, 1868 in Waragoda, a village in Kelaniya. Source:Dailynews He was the eldest son of Don Daniel and Elisa Jayatilaka (nee Weerasinghe), the former being from Paththalagedara in Veyangoda. Daniel Jayatilaka was a contractor in the construction of roads and a founder member of the Vidyalankara Pirivena in Kelaniya. Mrs. Elisa Jayatilaka (nee Weerasinghe) devoted Buddhist, a descendent of the highly respected, wealthy Weerasinghe family of Waragoda. Initial education was at Vidyalankara Pirivena where he learnt Sinhalese, Pali, Sanscrit and Buddhist Literature under the patronage of scholars such as Ven. Rathmalane Sri Dharmaloka and Ven. Rathmalane Sri Dharmarama. Elementary education in the English medium was commenced at a Baptist school in Kelaniya. Secondary education was received at Wesley Collage Colombo. His siblings were Muhandiram Don Simon Jayatilaka and Mudliyar Don Abraham Jayatilaka. Marriage ...
Feb 14, 2022
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Education for some but not for others: Learning support, disability, and free education-By Ramya Kumar C. W. W. Kannangara: “Talents and ability are not confined to any social class or group and any social system must provide for their emergence by the provision of equal educational opportunities.” (from Kannangara Report 1943) Source:Island Kuppi Talk stands for democratising education and educational spaces by addressing issues of access, (in)equality, exclusion and marginalization, within our education systems. This Kuppi Talk draws on conversations with principals/teachers, parents, and students, to look into the everyday forms of violence and exclusion experienced by children with special needs at our schools and universities. “I could not concentrate or sit in one place, but this was not recognised as a problem by my parents or teachers…it was when I went extreme that the problem was identified, that is when I became violent …. I was bored … .my ...
Nov 11, 2021
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