Archive for November 2010
An overview of our education system
the UK is one of the strongest democracies in the world and has one of the strongest education systems because from a young age children are encouraged to form an opinion of their own, think outside the box and most of all QUESTION their subject matter. This is in stark contrast to the education system we have in sri l…anka which only sticks to subject matter, allows little or no outside thinking due to the lack of class and individual projects being implemented and worst of all due to the spoon feeding mentality of tutors and teachers which only provide adequate information to pass (sometimes well) in an exam. It looks like this model is not only going to be strengthened but also deeply politicised.
With the Presidents office demanding that every school child tunes into listen or watch the President inaugeration speech, it shows that the aim of the present regime is to purely establish and mantain power and indoctrinate their agenda not only amongst voters, but also amongst a future generation of voters. I am unsure how manyparents would be agreeable to seeing time being wasted hearing a speech on economic development when a child should be learning how to form sentences or long division.
I hope the children who have been forced by the education ministry to tune in, will remember the promises made in this speech and hold those responsible accountable should these promises remain unfulfilled. Perhaps their minds might hae longer memories than those of their parents who seem to have forgotten promises such as the abolishment of the presidency or the devolution of power which were pledgd in the last two elections.
