THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE BILL
Speech made in the Senate on July 3, 1956 Senator Azeez: Mr. President, the hon. Leader of the House has just told us that the chief objective of this Bill is to assist the common man to take his due…
Author: Azeez Foundation
LIBERTY AND EQUALITY IN EDUCATION
"Speech at the Education Conference, Kandy Organized by the All Ceylon Union of Teachers on October 21, 1950" The White Paper proposals no doubt fall short of the ideal and are in some respects not so ambitious and advanced as…
THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM – A MIDDLE PATH SOLUTION
Article in the Sunday Observer of June 23, 1957 In our life-time, our Country has never faced a crisis so serious as it is now confronted with and fraught with such dire consequences – reminiscent of the violence that was…
THE MUSLIM ATTITUDE TOWARDS MODERN EDUCATION DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Special Haj Day Supplement of the Times of Ceylon of August, 1952 In the history of Muslim education in Ceylon, the year 1892 will always remain a memorable year. It was in that year that the Muslim Educational Society achieved…
THE LANGUAGES IN THE CURRICULUM OF THE CEYLONESE MUSLIMS
Seminar at the All-Ceylon Y.M.M.A. Conference on June 26-28, 1959 Ceylon has one official language – Sinhalese – provided statutorily, two national languages – Sinhalese and Tamil – recognized historically and three instructional languages – Sinhalese, Tamil…
SCHOOL AUTONOMY IN THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
Speech at the Prize Day 1952 at Chavakachcheri Hindu College, Jaffna I do not believe that it is within the power of a school to pay a greater honour to an individual than to invite him to preside over its…
MUSLIMS AND THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION
Education Page of the Ceylon Daily News of 12th March 1953 It is not difficult to understand the very large place which the language problem is occupying in the minds of the people of Ceylon today. It has been the…
RELIGIOUS LITERACY AND THE ASSISTED SCHOOL
Prize-Day address, 1956 of Skantha Varodaya College, Chunnakam Mr. Principal, Staff and Students, Ladies and Gentlemen ! Before I proceed, let me say that it is my bounden duty to express my sincere pleasure and deep gratitude for the invitation…
THE STATE AND THE SCHOOL IN CEYLON SOME ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM
Speech at Rotary Club of Colombo at the G.O.H. on March 21, 1957. This was published in the Times of Ceylon of Monday, April 1, 1957 “A great economic revolution is sweeping across the world and a new climate of…
THE FUTURE OF ASSISTED SCHOOLS
Extract from the Zahira College Prize Day Report of Saturday, 15th February, 1958 Two World Wars with the threat of a Third have taught us that the method of discussion and the method of discovery bring us no peace within…