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By Dr. Thilan U.Hewage
“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” – Helen Keller
My dear sister Sri Lanka, It is with the greatest sadness that I write to you today, while being a spectator to one of the biggest human catastrophes on our mother earth, where a group of my own children, let me call them “Baanis”, are killing their brothers...
There have been numerous studies carried out over the past one hundred years, identifying different factors affecting the teaching-learning process in formal education procedures throughout the world. In most countries formal education follows a pattern of preparing students for the workforce which is the lifeline of the economy of the country.
Therefore, most of the...
As we have experienced, the novel Coronavirus has changed the life of each and every human being on this planet, one way or another. Phrases such as ‘social distancing’ or ‘hygienic social practices’ have become familiar in our daily conversations and our daily doses of information we eagerly gather from various sources. By looking at the progression of the number of...
By Dr. Thilan U.Hewage
“Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.”-...
“The death penalty is fundamentally a poor person’s issue. I have never met a single person with money or resources on death row...
“If we are to have peace in the world, men and nations must embrace the nonviolent affirmation that ends, and means must cohere....
“What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis...
“Power should only be entrusted to those who do not seek it.” – PlatoLeadership has been one of the main topics discussed within...
“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be...
“The sole preoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of...
“In our more highly organised world we face a new problem. Something called education is given to everybody, usually by the State...
“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour’s” – Richard WhatelyIf someone says...
“Although the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful, must be reasonable” – Thomas...
“An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down”- Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn and Ex-...
There have been many discussions, in the recent past, about creating a ‘Knowledge Economy’ in Sri Lanka and even about making the...