"Balika - balika schools should be abolished and made mixed schools" -- Governor Dhamma

"Balika - balika schools should be abolished and made mixed schools" -- Governor Dhamma

Sabaragamuwa province governor Mr. Dhamma Dissanayaka said that we live in a spiritually broken down society and that we should once again reconstruct it. He mentioned this day before yesterday (9) at the programme of 'langama pasala honda pasala' (closest school is the best school) and when participating in the Sabaragamuwa province official celebration of handing over the new 500 school buildings to the students of Ratnapura Kumara Vidyalaya.  

Mr. Dhamma Dissanayaka who expressed further ideas in this context said, "The closest school is the
best school project has been started under the concept of Mr. Akila Viraj Kariyawasam. We ought bring that to mind. He is a student of mine at Colombo university. I am indeed so happy I as a teacher gets the opportunity of being connected to a procedure adopted according to the concept of a student. 

This is the second time I visited this school. I am very happy about the mannerisms of this school, the cleanliness and the formalities. I believe that the reason for it is leadership. The quality that can be happy about in this school is the discipline. Such children are ... not only for the school; but an honour for the country too. But there is one shortcoming for the school. That is that there are no girls. 

There is a funny racialism in this country. We are always divided. The first instance of division according to race began from the Colebrooke - Cameron Reforms in 1823. This is a big tragedy. We know that what we find in European countries are not schools divided as boys and girls ... but human schools. Though they introduced that structure to us ... we formed a different structure as such. Though we studied about Sama and Amara in the same book; the Sama and Amara who use that book are beyond two walls. Is there any better illustration of ignorance in the formation of policies of this country? Trying to create reconciliation among races within that context is a joke. I am not talking about about this not confining it only to Sabaragamuwa province. We should immediately abolish schools where boys and girls attend separately and instead those must be made into mixed schools. 

Lord Buddha has preached that there is nothing separate as    

woman and man and that there is only a covenance. However, the education methodology of this country it has been made into two as if the great wall of China has been constructed in between. We should point out to those who drafted the policies that the wall in the middle should be removed without making us mental patients and that the decision taken by them is wrong. 

When children in a school of girls and children in a school of boys come out ... how can we know that it is a mixed school. For this reason it has become difficult for the female to understand the male and the male to understand. It is a massive human crime. 

We will be granting appointments for teachers. A tuition class is conducted at a higher education centre in Ratnapura to coach how to face an interview relevant for it. This is where the teaching profession stands today in our country. The teaching profession is a holy profession. A teacher is a different world of his own ... a different feeling. But today this has become a black market. Just as much as the centre of school-education, it should be the centre of the soul too".

Chief secretary D.M. Malani, zonal education secretary Mahinda. S. Weerasuriya, member of parliament for Ratnapura district A.A. Wijeytunga, former provincial council MPs Iflan Yehiya and Samitha Attygala were present on this occasion.