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Character building main objective of education - CJ

The Chief Justice J.A.N. de Silva said the main objective of education should be the building of character which involves the inculcation of discipline.

The Chief Justice who was the Chief Guest at the annual prize giving of S. Thomas' Preparatory School, Kollupitiya said the first persons who can teach discipline are the parents. If the parents have a proper religious background that will help them to put their children on the correct path. Discipline is essential to build a free and prosperous society.

The Chief Justice said: "We must also educate parents with the basic qualities of love and affection. The child first discovers love in his home before he travels outside his home to his school, university or work place. He said the end of three decade old war that divided our country has created a reasonable expectation that we would be able to reach reconciliation and healing that would lead to rapid economic progress. "I sincerely hope that Sri Lanka will begin to provide the atmosphere and circumstances which will help each individual to grow to his utmost."

He said: "If we are to live together, we must have tolerance of other people's view, religious tolerance, ideological tolerance, and these are the things which have become inevitable in the interests of self-preservation. We must respect every individual. If you take democracy in the proper sense, it is accepting the variety of the world as something to be encouraged and not as something to be destroyed or obliterated. If you have differences, they have to be settled by peaceful methods."

The Headmaster of S. Thomas' Preparatory School Yohesan Casie Chetty said S. Thomas' has for long been a model of the unity we seek for the nation. The conclusion of the conflict in our land has provided us with a window of opportunity to create the united Sri Lanka we desire for ourselves and for the generations to follow.

 

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