දුක.......

උරුම නම්,
මට
ඔබේ සෙනෙහස
ඉවසන්නම්
එය
මා
සතුවන තුරා
කල්ප
කාලාන්තරයක්
................
සසරේ.........

එතෙක්
මා
හට උරුම දුක.......

Psychology and the students

 The mental disorders among the students are on the up......

 I was quite alarmed to read this caption in a newspaper. It is understandable that the pressure on the younger generation in today is quite unbearable. Though we cannot pinpoint these are the exact reasons for them to become victims of mental illnesses...we can be sure there are a whole lot of them which we are not yet aware of..

In a culture like Sri lanka there is always pressure behind the students to excell in their studies.They are usually compelled to follow in prescribed subjects whether they like it or not.They are expected to become doctors, engineers,accountants and lawyers.But most of the students find it hard to cope with the subjects forced upon them.

Some bright students also may become victims of mental pressure because they are expected to perform better and continue their academic performance.The peer pressure is too much to bear for some of them.

If we can reform the education system in Sri lanka to a system which identifies the talents of students and show them the path in those respective feilds we can be more successful..Some students are talented in sports than in academics.Some students have an inborn talent for art and literature than science. Some students have talent in photography.It is the responsibility of the authorities to take a complete U turn from this current education system and move towards a much more dynamic one.

Otherwise there would be much more dire consequences.....

A book I'm reading these days

mmm......recently I got this book "Lord of the flies" by William Golding.

"A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of school boys. At first they enjoy the their freedom and celebrate the absence of grown-ups. But the sense of disorder begins to affect them and irrational fears take over. The world of cricket, homework, classes and all the extracurricular activities in school seems to be a faraway dream against the more pressing reality of sheer survival-and the appearance of a terrifying beast who haunts their dreams. Violence takes over, the group is broken up into factions, each determined to wipe out the other. What Golding tries to show in the novel is that violence is built into our system, into our genes and in our blood, and that age has little to do when the innate violence would erupt."