We should build a country which opens schools and closes prisons – President
March 1, 2017 05:37 pm
We should build a country which opens schools and closes prisons, says President Maithripala Sirisena. “We should also build a country where healthy people are living while the number of hospitals minimized,” he added.
The President made these remarks at a ceremony held today (March 1) to celebrate the 150th anniversary of St. Mary’s College in Kegalle, the PMD reported.
He recalled the statement of Martin Luther King, “the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people” and said that intellectuals and great persons should be born more and more in this country to suppress the strident clamor of the bad people.
The President commended the mission carried out by the St Mary’s College which has a renowned history, to produce effective citizens to the country.
He said the college which has good influence of the Thripitaka, Bible and the Koran is exemplary for the national reconciliation process.
