Quiz to enhance children's intelligence
by Wehelle Piyathilake, Maharagama Spl. Cor.
The Rupavahini Corporation in partnership with the Ministry of
Education and Unilever Sri Lanka will launch a national quiz competition
to test and enhance the multiple intelligence of schoolchildren.
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A MoU was signed between the Rupavahini Corporation and Unilever
Sri Lanka to sponsor the Project. Here the chairman of
Rupavahini Corporation Wimal Rubasinghe and the Marketing
Director HPC Unilever Siddharth Banerjee, the Education Minister
Bandula Gunawardane and Deputy Minister Mohan Lal Grero were
also present. (Right) A section of the audience. |
At the launch of the ceremony "Rin Bright Star" at the Education
Ministry, the Deputy Minister of Education Mohan Lal Grero said that
"this program is bound to increase the awareness of the concept of
multiple intelligence among the viewers" who consists of parents and
children. He said that "this program has the ingredients to tread an
unchartered territory which is bound to be landmark". The Deputy
Minister said that by diving into children's multiple intelligence and
helping to developing it will create a new wave of interest for such
reality program in this country which ultimately will benefit children.
The quiz program will be based on renowned American psychologist and
professor of cognition and education, Howard Earl Gardner's theory of
Multiple Intelligence which argues that intelligent behaviour does not
arise from a single general ability but numerous different ways of
thinking and learning. Therefore, children learn, remember, perform and
understand in different ways.
Mohan Lal Grero reiterated as per Howard E. Gardner's theory that
each child has intelligence revolving around linguistic, logic, musical,
bodily-kinaesthetic, spatial and inter/intra personal intelligence and
embedded in each child in varying capacity. However, one of the issues
facing our society is that there was no systematic way to identify this
intelligence but the educational reforms that are taking place will
incorporate the essence of Multiple intelligence which will no doubt
trickle down to our society in future.
Education Minister, Bandula Gunawardena said, "As the custodian of
the future generation's knowledge base, we are happy to be associated
with an educational quiz program which will steer our younger generation
towards participating and viewing knowledge based entertainment.
The competition titled 'Rin Bright Star' is designed to span over
four months and will target schoolchildren aged between 11-15 years from
all the provinces.
The entry point to the show will be through a selection phase where
applicants will sit an aptitude test held at a centralised location.
Selected competitors will go through quizzes structured at quarter,
semi, and final rounds with the winner entitled to a cash prize of Rs.
1,000,000 of which Rs. 300,000 will be diverted to the school.
Brand Manager for Rin, Shafraz Saleem said, "We are happy to take the
golden opportunity of taking education at school level out of the
classrooms and into a competitive arena to be viewed by the nation. The
quiz program hosted by quizmaster Uddikais, a forum for the bright stars
of the future generation to sharpen their skills and expand their
knowledge beyond the textmbooks".
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