Truth Is Divine

Message from the Retired Principal of CP/K/Malaimahal Central College, Deltota and CP/Mt/Hindu National School, Matale

I am immensely pleased as the from head of these two great. Institutions in the up-country to be issuing this mess th this website being lunched with the aim of promoting national unity and producing good patriotic citizens with high humane qualities as to be of service to country and mankind.

We are now ushered into the ‘’Century of Light’’. The horizons of knowledge were never expanded so wide before this time according to our knowledge. {But, what we know of philosophers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Rousseau tell us a different story} Every moment something new is happening, every instant a novel mystery is revealing itself. Since knowledge is the most substantial power of this era, the one who knows a lot is the most powerful, the most successful today.

But there is a unique aspect of knowledge. ’’It cannot be Imposed’’. You cannot teach anyone until and unless he or she himself or herself is willing to acquire knowledge. Unawareness of this psychological truth has prevented parents, teachers and others in the educational sector from effectively equipping children and youth with this miraculous power of knowledge. Our entire system of imparting knowledge has been based on a ‘’forceful’’ attitude. We want to feed children and youth with lots of information. We want to inject into their system all that we want them to know. This has resulted in heavy bags our children are daily carrying to their school and the life threatening tension and depression our students are coping with.

Everyone needs to be ‘’encouraged’’ and not ‘’forced’’ to learn. Knowledge should be facilitated and not imposed. We cannot eliminate text-books and we also cannot take our educational system a hundred years back but we can instil in our children and youth a self-propelled yearning for knowledge.