How can education prepare students? | Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake | TEDxUSriJayewardenepura

This talk focuses on what education should do: change a person for the better; create someone with the ability to critically examine the world and imagine a better one; and work towards it even as a lone individual without ever being afraid of failure as long as they try. Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake is the former Head and a senior lecturer in the Department of English Language Teaching, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. She has a doctoral degree from the Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and a Master’s degree from New York University which she attended on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her anthology of translations, The Routledge Companion to Sinhala Fiction from Postwar Sri Lanka came out in 2023. She has won the Gratiaen Prize in 2011 for her novel There is Something I Have to Tell You, having been shortlisted for it twice for her short story collections. She won the State Literary Award for her short story collection ‘Driftwood’ in 1991, and in 2020 for the Best Translation of a Novel from Sinhala to English for The Sowing Festival. She does projects nationally for the improvement of teaching English as a second language and has written books on this subject. In 2017, she was awarded the title of Kala Keerthi by the President of Sri Lanka. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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Excellent explanation madam thank you very much.

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Recorded at TEDxUSriJayewardenepura - the first TEDx Event Organised by a University in Sri Lanka.

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