11/10/2014
Sunday August 02, 2009
News
Give priority to education: S.
Thomas’ Prep School headmaster
Education had been put on the
back-burner, during discussions
and debates on vital issues and the
sector was suffering due to lack of
funds, S. Thomas’ Preparatory
School headmaster, N.Y. Casie
Chetty said at the College prize
giving recently.
“With the end of the conflict, we
have reason indeed to be cautiously
optimistic that the sphere of
education will receive the attention
it desperately deserves and that
the available monetary resources of
the State will be allocated to it and
other high priority areas essential to
the development of the nation
overall,” he said at the function,
where well-known economist Nimal
Sanderatne and his wife were chief
guests.
Commenting on the end of the war
he said, “the entire process of
peace, reconciliation and harmony
between ethnic communities would
require time, sensitivity and firm
resolve to bridge the differences
and mistrust that had existed and
to create an entirely new ethos in
our land, where children from
different ethnicity would cease to
look upon one another with fear
and hostility.”
“The end of the civil war has
brought with it fresh challenges and
new opportunities. An entire
generation or more of our children
have known nothing other than the
brutality and barbarity of war,
insecurity, hate, suspicion and fear.
“Therefore, the culture of anarchy
must be replaced by a culture of
peace, freedom, tolerance and
harmony amongst the people of
our land,” Mr. Cassie Chetty said.
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