Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c6.72

c6.72

* “Our education has destroyed their love of their own literature, the quickening soul of a people. and their delight in their own arts and, worst of all, their repose in their own traditional and national religion. It has disgusted them with their own homes—their parents, their sisters, their very wives. It has brought discontent into every family so far as its baneful influences have reached”; spoken recently of English education in India, by Sir George Birdwood, this is, if possible, even more true of Ceylon.