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Dr. C.W. W Kannangara is regarded as the father of tree Education Sri Lanka Christopher William wijekoon kannangara was born on October 13, 1889 at random be, a suburb of Ambolangoda. His father was john Daniel wijekoon and his mother was Emaly wijesinghe. He had his Primary education at Wesleyan high school, Ambolangoda and then he had his secondary education at Richmond College, gall as a free scholar Dr. Kannagara was an eminent Sri Lankan educationist who rendered a great service for the development of education. He brought about several reforms in education. He become the Minister of Education in the Legislative council in 1923 He realized that the existing education system was not suitable to fulfil the needs of the society. He wanted to make some amendments in the system. In order to achieve this objective, he submitted an Education reform bill in 1938 he saw that the society was divided in to two groups under the then education system as the English educated and vernacular educated. He wanted to give an equal education to all irrespective of wealth or other reasons. The concept of central colleges was Dr. Kannangara’s greated contribution to the development of education. The first central colleges set up under this programmer were at minuwangoda, veyangoda, akuramboda, matugama, weeraketiya kattamkudy ibbgmuwa, Dickweella and marathugoda by 1944 there were 22 central colleges this number was increases up to 50 by 1946 he is a national hero who paved the way to both urban and rural children to receive free education. Dr. Kannagara also realized that some people could not afford to send their children to schools because of the poverty. In order to overcome this problem, be introduced a system of scholar, ships we all owe a huge debt of gratitude to Dr. Kannangara, the father of free Education.
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