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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sabren" data-source="post: 27882927" data-attributes="member: 578622">He foresaw every crictical milestone in recent Sri Lankan historyLKY’s on the Education System of Sri Lanka and his visit to the Peradeniya UniversityLKY had a very positive view of the education system introduced by the British in Sri Lanka. He says, ‘It (Sri Lanka) had a relatively good standard of education’ [1, p 462]. He says Sri Lanka had some universities of high quality in Colombo and Kandy (Peradeniya) that was teaching in English [ibid] and before the war they had thick layer of educated talent [2, pg. 14/22], but he was disappointed at its change of medium to local languages and the standards of the education after his visit to the Peradeniya University.LKY mentions his visit to the Peradeniya University, which he calls the University of Kandy, when he learnt from the Vice Chancellor that the medium of instruction in the university Sinhala for Sinhalese students, Tamil for students from Jaffna and English for Burgher students. [1, pg.463]LKY asks the Vice Chancellor, ‘How can three engineers educated in three different languages build one bridge?’ And the VC replied: ‘That, Sir is a political question for the ministers to answer’ [1, p 463]. This statement showed how qualified educationists in Sri Lanka became helpless because of the decisions made by politicians.<a href="https://island.lk/sri-lanka-in-lee-kuan-yews-words/" target="_blank">https://island.lk/sri-lanka-in-lee-kuan-yews-words/</a></blockquote>

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