Sri Lanka, Jan. 11 -- Although there is a need for educational reforms in schools, the process in which the present administration is carrying them out is not acceptable, Senior Professor Venerable Pathegama Gnanissara Thero noted.

Ven. Gnanissara Thero made these remarks while delivering the keynote address at the book launch of a biography written about Venerable Daramitipola Ratnasara Thero.

The Gnanissara Thero further emphasized that it is impossible to develop the country while destroying its culture and eroding its Buddhist heritage.

Expressing further views, Ven. Pathegama Gnanissara Thero said:

"We accept that school education reforms are necessary. But the change being proposed is not the right one. They go to the Chief Prel...