Produce disciplined, balanced individuals with correct, proper values: Headmaster
The primary objective of a successful school should be to produce individuals who are disciplined, balanced in their outlook to life and who are imbued with correct and proper values, noted St. Thomas’s Preparatory School Headmaster N.Y. Casie Chetty.
He made the observation in the Headmaster’s report for 2012, at the annual Prize-giving of the school held on Friday. The school marked its 75th Anniversary, since it was founded by the late William Thomas Kebie, MA, (Oxon) on May 12, 1938. “This is a critical element in a heterogeneous society such as ours in Sri Lanka, where there is diversity and pluralism.
St. Thomas’s Preparatory School Headmaster N.Y. Casie Chetty
If our nation is to progress and grow as a united and unified entity, it is indeed the need of our country, that its citizenry must not be bigoted, parochial or divisive in its attitude and thinking”, he said. “It is in such a context that an effective secondary school can play a pivotal role in enabling the fashioning of correct ideas and proper values”, he added. “I am not for a moment devaluing the role of a school in pursuing such laudable objectives as the pursuit of academic excellence, the creation and engendering of a culture of learning, the fostering of the goal of achieving excellence in the field of sport, drama, dance, music etc’, Mr Casie Chetty said.
“All these manifold areas must be sustained and nourished in order to develop the total personality of the young student that is simply not an issue. What is important, in addition to all the areas just referred to by me, is to ensure that the student passing through our school, into adult life, should be endowed in simple measure with those qualities and attributes of heart and mind which would reflect compassion, tolerance, respect for others with different views and ideas, coupled with magnanimity and love”.
“It is indeed meet that there ought to be sober reflection and introspection, especially when a school marks a milestone in a jubilee year. I can, with confidence, assert that our school has not failed our nation, as we continue the challenging task of nurturing, training and equipping our students to face the multitudinous demands which they would be confronted with a society, which has been radically transformed from its relatively halcyon past. In this noble, though arduous task of nation building, our school has, throughout this enterprise, been fortified and inspired by the motto of our school, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd”.
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