We are wasting money many ways. Education is only one area.

A group of people blame the country for not giving them enough when actually they are getting more than what is due to them.

This is called daylight robbery. I hope the government have the guts to stop this. When two brothers are fighting and when the stronger one grabs the other’s toys, parent interfere and share toys fairly. It should happen.

Having come through the same system and contributed so much in return, I am in a much better position to describe the gains and losses faced by the Sinhala community. In fact, it is a waste of time, money, resources and Sinhala children to pursue this education. I even feel that Sinhala kids including myself who have been through this horrible brain killing and slave-turning system should be given a chance to punish those engaged in enforcing continued presence amongst us. I wish we could use some of those engaged in maintaining this system including the ministerial fellows for ploughing paddy fields. I also would be there with them, not intended to hurt them, but to make them understand that even buffaloes need some very important physical and mental skills to do their job. This may also explain the unworthiness of the current system.

What we need is not education that decides life and death (job or no money), but something that help us live better. Obviously, I can tell that we have already found what has to be done and are in the early stages of implementation. Unless we have a system transferring our knowledge to make children get more chances of life than their parents, we are going backward. This is the objective and the performance indicator of worthiness in education.

My first task after taking up the first job (it has a very public history as the politicians sold it as an ongoing concern to aliens) paid back any debts for many generations (hath muth paramparawatama). With a migrant history, my real concern is the garbage that I learnt holding back my natural capabilities for a long time in a state of servility that denied my people the benefit of my services.

It is absurd to tie education with the right to live as done today. Sinhala kids must have the right to do every subject that gives them knowledge to benefit living. It should come free from the right people. Those who have true knowledge shall never ask for money but seek the right people to depart with their knowledge. Is there anyone among you? I have to hold back any further comments here for obvious reasons.

Only thing I do not agree with you is your saying of “myth” related to the reluctance of removing a tree for development. If you have to turn land into a desert under any circumstances, it is not DEVELOPMENT but DESTRUCTION. Only English and their followers want destruction to build a transport network, housing schemes, industries etc. For the record, we have developed a much better, faster, hassle-free, more efficient and reliable transport system for all travellers that is transferable from one generation to the next even without any natural destruction. Neither the reluctance was a myth for some reasons beyond your radar. In the name of development, the Local English community (also called Sri Lankan) including the current regime headed by strange man called MR from my own neighbourhood have done so much damage to our country, and they are all cursed. You will find soon what it really means. Education is just one of the many areas where this community is wasting our resources. The most shameful act done by this community is the spending of foreign exchange earned by poor men and women to import their personal needs. If not for these parasites installed by English, we have already corrected most of our historical shortcomings by now and live the life we always enjoy at the top.

We have to do much better than King Parakum and I am sure we can.