{"id":47774,"date":"2012-07-11T05:36:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T05:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=47774"},"modified":"2012-07-12T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:38:49","slug":"of-kingswood-its-founder-principal-louis-edmund-blaze-and-reflections-on-a-value-based-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/of-kingswood-its-founder-principal-louis-edmund-blaze-and-reflections-on-a-value-based-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Kingswood, Its Founder-Principal Louis Edmund Blaze’ And Reflections On A Value-Based Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Tissa Jayatilaka<\/a>\u00a0–<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tissa Jayatilaka<\/p><\/div>\n

Kingswood College, a premier secondary educational institute of Kandy recently celebrated the life and work of its founder-principal Louis Edmund Blaze’ by the unveiling of his statue and the inauguration of a memorial lecture. The above are excerpts of the inaugural lecture delivered by an Old Boy of the School, Tissa Jayatilaka.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Principal, Members of the Staff, Former Teachers of Kingswood College, Ladies & Gentlemen and Gentlemen of Kingswood<\/p>\n

I am pleased to be here this morning with all of you.\u00a0 I wish to thank the Principal of Kingswood and the President of Kingswood College Old Boys Union – Colombo Branch, Mr. Ian Ferdinands for bestowing on me this honour of delivering the inaugural Louis Edmund Blaze\u2019 Memorial Lecture. This event (which was preceded by the unveiling of a statue of\u00a0 Mr. Blaze\u2019 on the school premises) is part of the first of a series of events marking the 120th<\/sup> \u2018Kingswood Week\u2019 \u00a0festivities which will go on from today until the 15th<\/sup> of June.\u00a0 It is fitting and proper that we should so honour our founder and express our love and gratitude to him.\u00a0 To honour those worthy of honour, to honour those to whom honour is due, is a very decent human trait.\u00a0 We are most grateful to the principal, Mr. Ranjith Chandrasekera, Mr. Ian Ferdinands, and all Kingswoodians for this very noble gesture of theirs.<\/p>\n

Mr. Louis Edmund Blaze\u2019 (L.E.B. as he was affectionately known) founded the school that we owe so much to, on 4 May 1891 – – 121 years ago.\u00a0 He was the school\u2019s founding principal from 1891 to 31 December 1923 when he retired.\u00a0 Mr. Blaze\u2019 who was born on 29 September 1861 died on 4 August 1951.\u00a0 His was an exemplary life of service.\u00a0 He was an educationist with a splendid vision, a fine teacher, an accomplished writer of verse and a pioneer historian.\u00a0 In 1900, he wrote the first comprehensive school text book on the history of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 For many decades it was the standard history text book and it ran into several editions.<\/p>\n

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Kingswood College - Kandy<\/p><\/div>\n

Incidentally some of L.E.B \u2018s \u00a0historian \u00a0genes have been inherited by some Kingswoodians down the years.\u00a0 My senior colleague at Peradeniya and dear friend Kingsley de Silva, a brilliant product of Kingswood, ended up as Professor of History at the University of Ceylon and was the first to write a comprehensive one volume history of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Prior to Kingsley (K.M.) de Silva, another old boy, the late Prof. G.C. Mendis, excelled as a historian.\u00a0 He taught at Kingswood, wrote History text books for our schools, and later taught at the University of Ceylon. Interestingly, three Sri Lankans have to – date received D. Lit degrees \u00a0\u00a0from reputed British universities for their excellent contribution to the study of History.\u00a0 They are Paul Peiris, G.C. Mendis and K.M. de Silva – – Peiris from Cambridge University and the other two from the University of London.\u00a0 It is important to remember that of the\u00a0 three Sri Lankan Historians to receive this high honour, two are products of our wonderful school founded by the man we honour today – – L.E.B.<\/p>\n

My intention this morning is not to give you the life history of Mr. Blaze\u2019.\u00a0 That, you can easily access as some of us have written of it over the years.\u00a0 What I propose to do in the next several \u00a0\u00a0minutes is to talk about the values and ideals that Mr. Blaze\u2019 transmitted or conveyed to us through Kingswood.\u00a0 His pioneering work as founder-principal has been continued from 1923 to-date by other outstanding men who succeeded him as principal of the school.\u00a0 And then there are those other great teachers of Kingswood who also helped carry forward the vision and mission of Blaze\u2019.\u00a0 I am most pleased to note that some of these principals and teachers are with us today.\u00a0 Mr. Sisira Liyanage, old boy, teacher, later principal, and dear friend is foremost among them.\u00a0 No less invaluable are the contributions of Mr. S.L. James (he is unable to be present today) and Messrs. \u00a0S. B Ekanayake, Rupert Navamani and L.B Galahitiyawa who are, happily, here with us.<\/p>\n

I recall such other venerable teachers as J.O Mendis, B.A. Thambapillai, Winston Hoole, R.A.V. \u00a0Dharmasena, John Gooneratne, Sydney Perera, S.M. Selvaratnam, T. Thurairajah, V. Nadespillai, Hilary Fernando, Vernon Perera, Herman Perera, Anton Arulanandam, Arthur McGil, Mr. Banda, Mr. H.D.S. Fonseka and Mr. Nanayakkara.\u00a0 Special mention needs to be made of Mr. D.C. (Cyril) Matarage\u2019,\u00a0 who served the school with distinction, as a loyal member of the non-academic staff in his capacity as an administrative assistant to the head of the school. He was an invaluable asset to many a Principal of Kingswood.\u00a0 Of them all, the one who had the greatest impact on me is Kenneth de Lanerolle, my principal and guru.\u00a0 Another of Kingswood\u2019s great men is Ainsley Samarajeewa who passed away recently.\u00a0 I did not have the good fortune to be taught \u00a0\u00a0by him for he had left Kingswood by the time I joined the school. To Mr. Samarajeewa \u00a0and Mr. Sydney Perera, however, I owe a great debt.\u00a0 It is the two of them who ultimately paved the way for me to enter the University of Ceylon and to embark on my own educational career in life.\u00a0 Both Messrs Samarajeewa and Perera have been towering figures in the Kingswood Old Boys Union, especially of the Colombo Branch.<\/p>\n

I should like to now focus on what Blaze\u2019s Kingswood did for me, and to those Kingswoodians who were my contemporaries at school and today my intimate friends.\u00a0 Kingswood\u2019s greatest contribution to the wider community, in my opinion, is its production of gentlemen.\u00a0 Our school, ladies and gentlemen, have never prided itself as most schools do, on the number of students gaining distinctions at examinations or on the numbers securing admission to university.\u00a0 Important as these may be, the more important contribution of Kingswood has been in the moulding of the character of young men.\u00a0 It was our founder\u2019s intention, and that of his successors, to produce well \u2013 rounded human beings out of every student who passed through the portals of our school.\u00a0 Thus great emphasis was laid on loyalty<\/strong> and manliness<\/strong> as may be gleaned from a perusal of the history of the school and from the lyrics of our College Song. \u00a0No Kingswoodian who I call a friend, I am proud to say, \u00a0\u00a0has ever let the side down by acting in ungentlemanly or dishonourable fashion. We have met life\u2019s challenges squarely and unflinchingly, paying whatever price and bearing any burden honourable and gentlemanly conduct calls for.\u00a0\u00a0 That, then, is the hall mark of a true Kingswoodian.\u00a0 We never are guilty of the \u2018not done\u2019 things of life.<\/p>\n

The other great tradition of Kingswood, apart from producing gentlemen, is the closeness of teacher and pupil at our school.\u00a0 Blaze\u2019 found that in his time there was an unnecessary or unacceptable gap between teacher and pupil – – almost a despotism in that relationship. \u00a0This despotism was based on the old notion that you spare the rod only to spoil the child.\u00a0 He wanted Kingswood to be a school which carried on its work of character building without there being hostility of any kind between the teachers and the taught.\u00a0 Our teachers were our friends.\u00a0 To be sure, we were disciplined and punished at times, but it was not the vicious kind of corporal punishment of old.<\/p>\n

To start a new school based on these twin features – – where corporal punishment was not considered key to discipline and getting through examinations was not considered \u00a0the be- all and end-all of education – – was to start\u00a0 with the heaviest of handicaps.\u00a0 L.E.B \u00a0had the courage of personal convictions to attempt such radical educational change.\u00a0 He was an innovator of the best kind.\u00a0 And, in my opinion, he succeeded marvellously in this regard.<\/p>\n

None of us in this hall today or any other living Kingswoodian was taught by L.E.B.\u00a0 But we have all been taught by those who were influenced by the ideals of L.E.B.\u00a0 All of us at Kingswood – – the teachers as much as the taught – – were touched by our founder\u2019s vision and the traditions on which he founded the school.\u00a0 All the men and women who followed Mr. Blaze\u2019 carried forward those traditions and values down the ages.\u00a0 The ethos of Kingswood \u00a0\u00a0thus remained safe for posterity thanks to the wonderful principals who followed Blaze\u2019 – – \u00a0Pearson, Gibbon, Utting, \u00a0Nonis, de Lanerolle, Labutale, Premachandra, Liyanage, Herat, Rambukwelle, and \u00a0Chandrasekere.\u00a0 The Kingswood spirit has thus prevailed all these 121 years.<\/p>\n

Let me now share with you what Kingswood has done for me which I am sure is what the school has done for all of us.<\/p>\n

Kingswood taught me that an educated person is not he who merely has initials after his name, \u00a0\u00a0be it\u00a0\u00a0 B.A., \u00a0B.Sc., M.A., or \u00a0Ph.d. \u00a0The school taught me that an educated person is one whose education is never complete.\u00a0 That we all learn every day of our lives until we die.<\/p>\n

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Kingswood taught me that important as educational qualifications are, that there is a \u00a0\u00a0difference between information and knowledge that one acquires through securing university degrees on the one hand and worldly wisdom on the other.\u00a0 That it is far more important to seek wisdom based on human experience and insight.<\/p>\n

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That an educated person is one who does not think he knows everything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That a \u00a0truly educated person is one who has the following characteristics:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One who has the courage to say, \u2018I do not know\u2019 when he does not know.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One who has the courage to say sorry when he has made a mistake; one who acknowledges human fallibility; one who remembers at all times that to err is human and that one must\u00a0 forgive others their mistakes just as much as all of us ask them to forgive us ours.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One who can take victory and defeat with equanimity. That winning, useful and rewarding as it may be, \u00a0is not everything.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One who loves learning as well as the other joys of life – – sports and hobbies: the concept of the crammer\/bookworm versus the all rounder. This concept arises from the old Greek ideal which exhorts us to have a healthy mind in a healthy body.<\/p>\n

e)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One who takes responsibility not only for oneself or one\u2019s family but for those around him – – especially for the weak and the marginalized.<\/p>\n

f)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One who has the courage to be different. While respecting the views of others, to stick to one\u2019s own considered view however controversial or unpopular that might be. One who asserts his independence of spirit and refuses to follow the common herd.<\/p>\n

g)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One who believes in the value of secularism while holding on to one\u2019s own religious beliefs and convictions.<\/p>\n

h)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One who respects pluralism and diversity.\u00a0 One who does not seek to assert the superiority of any one ethnic group or religion. \u00a0\u00a0In the Sri Lanka of today there are those who think, mistakenly in my view, \u00a0that Sri Lanka belongs only to the Sinhalese who are Buddhist.\u00a0 We must respect all religions and all ethnicities for we are all citizens of this country.\u00a0 We are all equal before the law and our Constitution must protect all Sri Lankans.\u00a0 This is the true nationalism we must assert.<\/p>\n

i)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0One who is both internationalist and Indigenous in outlook.<\/p>\n

We are both citizens of the world and of Sri Lanka. \u00a0We must respect other cultures and other ethnic groups.\u00a0 Cultures are neither superior nor inferior – –\u00a0\u00a0 they are merely different.\u00a0 Be familiar with the best of Sri Lankan values – – whether these are based on Muslim, Burgher, Tamil or Sinhala cultures.\u00a0 We must appreciate all that is best in our culture and accept all that is best in the cultures outside of our own. We must be rooted in the particular as at the same time we seek the universal. For that is how we achieve human brotherhood and harmony.<\/p>\n

Kingswood has taught me that education in the above-delineated broad sense is the greatest treasure we can all aspire to.\u00a0 As we well know, we could lose all our material possessions but learning once acquired will never go away.<\/p>\n

Two verses I learnt as a child have helped me to remember the great value of a proper education – – the kind \u00a0I have talked of today for which Kingswood laid, for me, \u00a0the foundation and Peradeniya put the finishing touches later on. These are values contained in the two verses from the Sinhala Vadan Kavi<\/em>, a primer rich in didactic verse containing advice on life and growth.\u00a0 These are verses 30 and 31 and I quote:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Thiboo thenaka sora sathuran gatha\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nohe\u00a0\u00a0 na<\/em><\/p>\n

Esandha manawath wathuren wala\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nohe\u00a0\u00a0 na<\/em><\/p>\n

Kopa uwath raja mathidun gatha\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nohe\u00a0 na<\/em><\/p>\n

Ugatha mana shilpayamai\u00a0 mathu\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 reke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 na\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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Allata singhawath rasa nethi kevili\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 kaka<\/em><\/p>\n

Walkola bima athuta nidhi noleba duk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 thaka<\/em><\/p>\n

Kalgiya redhi verali hendha deli\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0kunen\u00a0\u00a0 waka<\/em><\/p>\n

Elmen akuru uganiu idiri\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 weda\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 thaka<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All that I have shared to you so far are what I first learnt at\u00a0 Kingswood, thanks primarily to \u00a0Mr. Blaze\u2019.\u00a0 He set the standards that other principals and teachers maintained and built upon over these past 121 years.\u00a0 My contemporaries, seniors and I are grateful for the privilege of being Kingswoodians and I hope you young students of today will always remember and uphold the values and traditions of Kingswood as and when you step \u00a0into the world outside the school.<\/p>\n

Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

Tissa Jayatilaka<\/p>\n

11 \u00a0June, 2012.<\/p>\n

*Tissa Jayatilaka<\/a>\u00a0is the\u00a0Executive Director\u00a0at\u00a0U.S-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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