After clean sweep victory for UNP lead by J.R. Jayawardana in 1977, one of the key decisions taken was the removal of ‘History’ from general curriculum stream.
It was reported that this old cunning fox has asked ‘Ithihasaya kannada’ (What is the use of learning History?).
After three decades, both youth and middle age generations have grown up without knowing their history, as a result, consequences are immerging more and more evident now.
There are countries which do not have a recorded history due to late colonization or they were not developed enough to record their history until recently.
However as Sri Lankan’s we have proud history of over 2500 years, which is written in Books, gold scripts, stone or earthen scripts and each resource is cross referencing and matching with others without any conflicts.
It is important to analyze and identify the hidden agenda behind taking out of teaching our history in schools.
JR Jayawardana was well known for his greed for power who struggled for eon to grab the power and succeeded only at last in very old age.
He clearly identified that when the civil society is ignorant on the history of the country, it is easier to manipulate and rule them at his will.
History is the white board that hails its heroes and equally picks apart the traitors.
When the nation is not aware of their heroes, a feeble can act like a hero and no one will question him.
Equally, the history clearly shows the chain of traitors and their true faces and tactics which ease identifying current links.
It’s a well known fact the King Don Juwan Darmapala converted to Catholic and betrayed this country to gain the helm. There were many more who followed the trend and get posts, wealth and property in return to betray one’s religion and culture.
When we look at current political dynasties like ‘Jayawardana’, ‘Bandaranaike’, ‘Wijayawardana’ and ‘Wickramasingha’, all of their ancestors (fathers or grand fathers or in some cases themselves) are converted back to Catholic to Buddhism in post independence era. So somewhere in the ancestry their forefathers have converted from Buddhism to Catholic for petty gains and here they have gained all the wealth and power and converting back to retain their power in the era of ‘vote for all’.
The history clearly shows this vicious chain, and that is why JR wanted to keep away history from the people to hide their true story behind heritage of political ancestries.
When people are not aware of the prosperity of past, they can be satisfied with little,
When people are not aware of great heroes of history, any feeble clown can pretend as a leader,
When people are not aware of their great cultural values and roots, any imported junk can be sold to them,
And, when people of the country is not sure about their history, myths like 'Ealam' can be easily marketed in the community!!
It was reported that this old cunning fox has asked ‘Ithihasaya kannada’ (What is the use of learning History?).
After three decades, both youth and middle age generations have grown up without knowing their history, as a result, consequences are immerging more and more evident now.
There are countries which do not have a recorded history due to late colonization or they were not developed enough to record their history until recently.
However as Sri Lankan’s we have proud history of over 2500 years, which is written in Books, gold scripts, stone or earthen scripts and each resource is cross referencing and matching with others without any conflicts.
It is important to analyze and identify the hidden agenda behind taking out of teaching our history in schools.
JR Jayawardana was well known for his greed for power who struggled for eon to grab the power and succeeded only at last in very old age.
He clearly identified that when the civil society is ignorant on the history of the country, it is easier to manipulate and rule them at his will.
History is the white board that hails its heroes and equally picks apart the traitors.
When the nation is not aware of their heroes, a feeble can act like a hero and no one will question him.
Equally, the history clearly shows the chain of traitors and their true faces and tactics which ease identifying current links.
It’s a well known fact the King Don Juwan Darmapala converted to Catholic and betrayed this country to gain the helm. There were many more who followed the trend and get posts, wealth and property in return to betray one’s religion and culture.
When we look at current political dynasties like ‘Jayawardana’, ‘Bandaranaike’, ‘Wijayawardana’ and ‘Wickramasingha’, all of their ancestors (fathers or grand fathers or in some cases themselves) are converted back to Catholic to Buddhism in post independence era. So somewhere in the ancestry their forefathers have converted from Buddhism to Catholic for petty gains and here they have gained all the wealth and power and converting back to retain their power in the era of ‘vote for all’.
The history clearly shows this vicious chain, and that is why JR wanted to keep away history from the people to hide their true story behind heritage of political ancestries.
When people are not aware of the prosperity of past, they can be satisfied with little,
When people are not aware of great heroes of history, any feeble clown can pretend as a leader,
When people are not aware of their great cultural values and roots, any imported junk can be sold to them,
And, when people of the country is not sure about their history, myths like 'Ealam' can be easily marketed in the community!!
