Democracy, representation and devolution
Democracy comes from two Greek words, ‘demos’ and
‘kratos’, which mean ‘people’ and ‘power’. Thus democracy means a
political system in which power belongs to the people. Few people
will disagree that this is the best system of government, since
people who make up a State, and therefore the government of a State
should be in the hands of its people. However, numerous
disagreements arise when we try to work out the best mechanisms
through which the people can exercise their power of government.
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Of teachers and students, learning and giving
Yesterday (June 6, 2010), I ran into an old
friend, Dr Panduka Karunanayake. We were in the same class almost 40
years ago. We had time to have tea. Had time to talk. So there was
reminiscing as often happens when old friend meet after a long time.
Naturally, the conversation tended towards schooldays and school.
Happily, however, we had both outgrown school enough to talk about
other things. School and school-things were thereafter just points
of departure. Nothing more.
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Two-way bilingual system
The model more or less used in ancient Sri Lanka
in its multilingual educational context reflects characteristics of
the model called two-way bilingual education: teaching the same
content in both languages: first in the known language and then in
the target language with the use of ample supplementary material.
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