Lion Leads Frontier - Why invest in Sri Lanka?

aj wrote:

Sorry to say, it's nothing to do with 'western'. In western universities, students keep their spine straight and talk, question their superiors, ask why, make new inventions. Many of them send rockets in the backyard, make computers in their garage unlike many of the Sri Lankan university students protesting against this and that. Sri Lankan best students lot is conditioned to be slaves from the beginning. See https://youtu.be/ClymCgN28sw
They kneel before the seniors and when they go to government offices they don't ask why should I approve this contractor just because the minister tells me, when there are better contractors at cheap price. we should follow the tender process strictly, This contract work is very low quality, I order them stop paying and will go to courts for endangering the people. But these slaves won't do that they would stay silent before the senior officials (may be the same one or somebody else who stripped, hanged and beat them in the university)
If you have Ovitigala Vithanage Samantha like university students passing out from the Sri Lankan universities, in the government offices then they will stop, protest, follow the right process, instead of the ministers dropping the OL maths pass mark to 18 just because the ministers' children got only 18 marks or minister wants to increase 'the pass rate'. Samanthas will take lead in running an efficient bus, railway system, have daily maintenance routine so buses are clean and well maintained, they they run on schedule, that the bus won't end up corroding in a depo just because the radiator is faulty. Samanthas in Police won't allow Amare to murder or politicians to rape girls. Samanthas won't kneel before ministers just as they didn't kneel before in the university. The criminals would be locked up and the justice would prevail. Unfortunately in Sri Lankan bright students who can keep the head held high are either 2 feet under the earth like Samantha or they are driven out of the university system by those psycopath future controllers of the country.

WildBear wrote:Im not negative at all. Im still optimistic about future of Sri Lanka, I'm saying we are wasting our opportunities, We are boasting about a 1 billion dollar FDI, while other similar countries attractingmore than ten times. We are still strugling with our economic policies, with playing fool by expropriation, while our competitors are creating favurable environment. We spend only 1.8 % of GDP for education, human resource development, while somalia spend 10%. We still have a chance if we identify our weaknesses and take corrective measures, still we are not late.


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WildBear wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaF39HcqKqg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Foriegners always have a good impression on SL, Not like aj's negative and delusional and depressed attitudes, but unfortunately Sri Lankans are still not ready to reap the benifit. Above video will tell you a story.

anubis wrote:
Have you looked into what exact kind of graduates they are? what universities they come from? You'll be surprised to learn that only a handful of people come from respected universities or have a MSc / PhD from a good university.

Of course, if you have a degree in arts and are serving in a government department like the department of education, the stuff like the z-score mess is just inevitable. But who's responsible for placing such non-qualified people there?

My point is, there are two issues here:

1.Government departments are not run by people with "relevant" qualifications. It's called "sudussata sudusa thena deema" in sinhala, and we don't have that in SL... it's all about kissing the ass of some authority and landing a job.

2. When you have 1) nobody wants go against their superiors... they just want to keep their jobs. This is what your post should be pointing. Instead, you are insulting all the educated professionals in Sri Lanka (living inside and outside the country).

aj wrote:

anubis wrote:
Have you looked into what exact kind of graduates they are? what universities they come from? You'll be surprised to learn that only a handful of people come from respected universities or have a MSc / PhD from a good university.

Of course, if you have a degree in arts and are serving in a government department like the department of education, the stuff like the z-score mess is just inevitable. But who's responsible for placing such non-qualified people there?

My point is, there are two issues here:

1.Government departments are not run by people with "relevant" qualifications. It's called "sudussata sudusa thena deema" in sinhala, and we don't have that in SL... it's all about kissing the ass of some authority and landing a job.

2. When you have 1) nobody wants go against their superiors... they just want to keep their jobs. This is what your post should be pointing. Instead, you are insulting all the educated professionals in Sri Lanka (living inside and outside the country).

What do you mean by unqualified? All the people in departments, cooperation, government are qualified and come from climbing the career ladder as always. Even those politically appointed chairman and secretary have some degree or diploma. Almost all of them are qualified and experienced. What matters is that instead of the bright creative brave minds (who are either physically killed or mentally killed or driven out by the seniors) we get these sadists on the top position ganging up with the politicos and controlling the the rest of the educated and qualified slaves.

What's wrong with arts degree? I'm in IT field, and I know for a fact that the creators of one of the popular software frameworks was built by a person with an agriculture degree. I know another professional who has a masters in dancing. Do you know Ted Turner. He must sure have a MBA or some business degree. Nope he did an arts degree. He learned Greek in university. Subject does not matter anyway you hardly use what you learn at university in the job. What matters is you learned to learn.

The thing is in bus halts, in lunch rooms, on train we bash at the current politico. But there's always someone there either bandula, ravi, wimal or sarath or whoever in power. It's like barking at the moon. Because it's always the same, we suppose they were the problem for power cuts, z scores. But it's not. If Sri Lanka had bright university graduates who can keep their head held high to carry out the duties right without bending for the superiors those politicians will have no power to do whatever they do. So blame those worthless spineless graduates and their sadistic masters.

anubis wrote:"...So blame those worthless spineless graduates and their sadistic masters."

This tells everything about you. So, it's the graduates that is causing all the problems in this country??????

Redbulls wrote:@aj,
after went through all of your comments I came to understand that you need complete rehabilitation,you seems to be affected by our educational system.

hariesha wrote:

Redbulls wrote:@aj,
after went through all of your comments I came to understand that you need complete rehabilitation,you seems to be affected by our educational system.

Yes. Frankly I opened this topic expecting a fruitful discussion and I wanted to share some topics/thoughts covered in the Acuity Investors forum. But couple of guys dragged away the topic into unwanted and unrelated areas, I think purposely.

To be frank, I am bit exhausted about this forum now.

D.G.Dayaratne wrote:I never seen a minister or any other high officer made any comments in this forum.There are various seminars and public discussions in Colombo I never seen a minister or higher officer. participating

They are not worried about public interest Only worried about
money, women,and winning elections by or hook or crook

President should advice ministers to participate at least one public discussion per week report to him