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  • Опубліковано 27 жов 2022
  • Address at the 2022 Science Faculty Convocation of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, by Rohan Pethiyagoda

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  • @dhammikewasanthakumara184
    @dhammikewasanthakumara184 Рік тому +33

    I wish all our genuine academics had half the backbone you have sir! Thanks for leading the way for free thinking new generation! 👌🙏👏👏👏

  • @kapiladissasekera2150
    @kapiladissasekera2150 Рік тому +26

    I am not lucky enough to educate in a University but i would like to thank your for your great speach Sir. Proud to have people like you in this society..

    • @ranipanadam9332
      @ranipanadam9332 Рік тому +2

      What an inspiring speech in a time of uncertainty, an adult who can acknowledge the mistakes of.his generation . I hv ancestors who came fr Sri Lanka and my forefathers believed that education will set us free but will teach us responsibility towards ourselves and the community

    • @indrarodrigo
      @indrarodrigo Рік тому +1

      What a superb, courageous speech. Well done sir. I haven't yet had the privilege of a university education or degree. But I am so proud of you & your very forthright , honest , bold speech sir. My hearty congratulations go out to you & to every single student who was as blessed as to come under your wing. God bless you with more & more of the wealth of mentorship which you have served to your university & to each of your undergrads. Congratulations again and may you stay blessed with a long & healthy life and may you continue to impart from your storehouse of knowledge to all our people in Sri Lanka & to the world! 🙏 🙌 ✝️

  • @malkaweerasinghe6271
    @malkaweerasinghe6271 Рік тому +3

    Excellent speech. Hope people will change with time. Needs to protect democracy in our country. God bless you.

  • @kasheera9
    @kasheera9 Рік тому +4

    What a great flow.
    People used to make jokes of people who feel proud of their achievements. You answered them very nicely.
    Thank you!

  • @Alfred-rh3vc
    @Alfred-rh3vc Рік тому +3

    Sir i profoundly admire the contents of the speech which made me emotional thinking of the young graduates looking for their rice bowls which have been rudely snatched by unscrupulous thieves who r at large n enjoying a feast with their clan.A spring cleaning of the thieves should be carried out soon.

  • @jayanthimathiaparanam9644
    @jayanthimathiaparanam9644 Рік тому +2

    A Wonderful Speech. So Apt for Today's Situation in Our Country. Spot On!

  • @asankajayawardena9719
    @asankajayawardena9719 Рік тому +5

    Wow Dr. Congratulations! The best speech I heard in the recent past .. ❤

  • @shamshunfarook9425
    @shamshunfarook9425 Рік тому +25

    Superb speech. Well done sir, this is certainly an inspirational speech and an encouragement to the next generation.

    • @warsil3735
      @warsil3735 Рік тому +1

      Factually inaccut.he said no Sri Lankan president was a graduate.JR was a graduate from university college London the precursor to university nof Colombo then. Ranil.ia a grad of uni of Colombo..so he has not done a good research.

  • @dilrukshiwimalaratne1184
    @dilrukshiwimalaratne1184 Рік тому +7

    Somebody pls input sinhala subtitles so that this valuable speech can reach a wider audience..

  • @zihanaj
    @zihanaj Рік тому +10

    Thank you Sir. An insightful message to all Sri Lankans.. let's think and work to save our mother land

  • @upaliwijesiri2036
    @upaliwijesiri2036 Рік тому +6

    Brilliant speech. Thank you for waking up the younger generation.

  • @ProfessorNimal
    @ProfessorNimal Рік тому +11

    Brilliant, as usual, Rohan. Very well done. Cheers

  • @btyouthministry2251
    @btyouthministry2251 Рік тому +10

    Well said sir! You have spoken bravely, honestly and accurately.

  • @nelsonmudiappa4724
    @nelsonmudiappa4724 Рік тому +15

    Great professor. Every word is a source of inspiration and fountain of wisdom. Thank you sir.

  • @adieshaharischandra766
    @adieshaharischandra766 Рік тому +3

    I was deeply impressed by this speech ! One of the best speeches I’ve ever come across ! Well done Sir ! 💯💯💯💯👌🏻

  • @kokirodrigo9744
    @kokirodrigo9744 Рік тому +3

    Brilliant speech. Excellent in its brevity and punch. You did pack quite a punch Mr P.

  • @SurangikaSenanayake
    @SurangikaSenanayake Рік тому +3

    Brilliant speech with a classic opening line. You are an inspiration to our country. I'm proud to be a graduate from this university and the same faculty. And yes, we batch mates are still friends. Thank you for your speech with common sense.

  • @muminaluthfie447
    @muminaluthfie447 Рік тому +2

    Superb sir..Highly appreciate your humble tone of speech most of all. The content is suiting the present situation in the country. So proud that we still have courageous academics, scholars like that of you to address all the youngsters 'common sense' as you mentioned. Well-done sir.
    Once again I too am so proud of being a pass out graduate of uni..of Sri J..pura..
    ❤️❤️❤️

  • @pusparamachandran4905
    @pusparamachandran4905 Рік тому +2

    Excellent convocation speech to the graduates. Yes, Common Sense is the key. Thanks so very much for your wise words Mr. Rohan Pethiyagoda.

  • @mohamedhashim8082
    @mohamedhashim8082 Рік тому +3

    Sir, Thank you very much for your valuable fearless thoughts. If the educated become the follower of the wrong doers, we will sink further more. I hope educated president must free himself from biases and be the Honest servant to the motherland without expecting personal financial gains.

  • @laxmanjayarathna5031
    @laxmanjayarathna5031 Рік тому +6

    Sir, Many thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge and experiences to build up our nation 👍

  • @thayaparanthambi8254
    @thayaparanthambi8254 Рік тому +5

    Such a wonderful and pragmatic speech.

  • @piumirajakaruna9392
    @piumirajakaruna9392 Рік тому +1

    Great speech!!! Current situation of our country was explained within minutes of time. But the question which hurts me is why these types of professionals were remain silent when the previous government made inappropriate disicions regarding the agriculture & the paper money? They should have raised their voices against those foolish disicions.

    • @shifayamaraikar3726
      @shifayamaraikar3726 Рік тому

      If they did raise their voice probably they would have ended up in Kanatte 😳

  • @devikaratnasiri2358
    @devikaratnasiri2358 Рік тому +8

    Superb speech! Extremely timely. Kudos to you!

  • @mohideenhussain5182
    @mohideenhussain5182 Рік тому +9

    Excellent speech well delivered, Sir.

  • @siddique611
    @siddique611 Рік тому

    I have seen many of your previous videos too. I really admire your calmness and the intellectual tone in your style of delivery of hard-hitting facts. Previous to this I loved the superb way you castigated the "all-knowing" GMOA President.

  • @jayanthamayadunne
    @jayanthamayadunne Рік тому +2

    Thank you for your inspirational speech for young graduates. We must have more and more teachers like you.

  • @malikmarikar9135
    @malikmarikar9135 Рік тому +3

    👌🙏✊
    Salute all the Mothers
    To d new graduates - Go concur d world and return back

  • @asokaherath2429
    @asokaherath2429 Рік тому +5

    Dear Sir
    You are precisely correct in your observations, but we cannot expect another bankruptcy having such academics and professionals and it's high time you all take over the full control of the key positions as true Patriots

    • @rukshandezoysa6171
      @rukshandezoysa6171 Рік тому

      President of the country need not be a graduate. AL would do.
      Graduate politicians are also useless. Selfish buggers. They don't care for the people and country.
      President should be.
      1. Honest.
      2. Love the country
      3. Love the people
      4. Genuine desire to improve the standard of living . ( Eg. Improve public transport).
      Present political boys , both graduated and only grade 8, don't presses any on the above.
      To me they are just rotten fish.

  • @lenperera6851
    @lenperera6851 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for this address Rohan. To the point, no further elaboration required.

  • @yakadaya007
    @yakadaya007 Рік тому +4

    Great address! Full of admiration for you ….. as usual!

  • @romeshilangakoon1
    @romeshilangakoon1 Рік тому +3

    Great speech - Prof Rohan

  • @praxd9778
    @praxd9778 Рік тому +4

    Brilliant speech!

  • @dammikaiddamalgoda733
    @dammikaiddamalgoda733 Рік тому +5

    Thank you for your thought provoking speech

  • @Norway_Athi
    @Norway_Athi Рік тому +2

    Wow, what a speech. I salute you sir

  • @shriyacooray783
    @shriyacooray783 Рік тому +3

    Such A great short and strait Speech to the Point ...🙏🙏🙏

  • @shanemendis3786
    @shanemendis3786 Рік тому +18

    Sir, How can we expect " Common scene " from a bunch of thieves.

    • @bhagyavf
      @bhagyavf Рік тому +2

      Common sense is not receiving from politicians. Its from mother..🙂

    • @DeAlwis
      @DeAlwis Рік тому +3

      What's more important is for voters to improve their common sense when electing leaders.

    • @athulawijeyaratne5693
      @athulawijeyaratne5693 Рік тому

      Exactly

  • @padminisenadheera5630
    @padminisenadheera5630 Рік тому

    Proud to have you in Sri Lanka, most of them have left the country

  • @AnneNicholas71
    @AnneNicholas71 Рік тому +3

    what a great speech and so bold and the bitter truth

  • @padmadahanayake8768
    @padmadahanayake8768 Рік тому +1

    Great speech Sir.
    "Lack of common sense "
    Most people can't understand 😪

  • @anjanakelum6401
    @anjanakelum6401 Рік тому +3

    Excellent speech sir

  • @kaleidoscopewithsavithrirodrig
    @kaleidoscopewithsavithrirodrig Рік тому +11

    What an absolutely brilliant convocation address Rohan - I wish this could be translated and sent out to the whole of this country to understand in layman's terms what we need to look out for - in other words, what would mother have done?

    • @hemanthaperera6049
      @hemanthaperera6049 Рік тому

      Why Savthri. Cant you remember what that idiot Cabraal said when he released all our gold stock. He said any mother would pawn her jewelry in a crisis. I refrain from making references to "his" mother as she couldnt have been able to do much for a runt in the family.

  • @mohamedalihassen2646
    @mohamedalihassen2646 Рік тому +3

    Technically you are correct that RW is not an elected President. He is the only head of state who has a Sri lankan degree

  • @arokiamvarapiragasam9442
    @arokiamvarapiragasam9442 Рік тому

    Sir, you are the true lover of our country Sri Lanka❤

  • @dharshikakongahage7082
    @dharshikakongahage7082 Рік тому

    Excellent speech Dr. Rohan!!! Well said.

  • @LG-iu4nv
    @LG-iu4nv Рік тому +5

    Excellent speech sir ❤

  • @dr.t.m.k.k.jinasena6129
    @dr.t.m.k.k.jinasena6129 Рік тому +4

    Excellent speech Sir 👌

  • @bandulaliyanagama3299
    @bandulaliyanagama3299 Рік тому +2

    Great speach Sir.

  • @pearlkaralliadde1974
    @pearlkaralliadde1974 Рік тому +3

    Excellant! 💐👍

  • @sujeevasebastianpereira6910
    @sujeevasebastianpereira6910 Рік тому +4

    Excellent speech👌🏽

  • @shanisamarawicrama2113
    @shanisamarawicrama2113 Рік тому +2

    Excellent speach sir.🙏🙏👍👍👍

  • @Dr.S.K.Navaratnarajah
    @Dr.S.K.Navaratnarajah Рік тому +4

    Great Speach. Nailed it.

  • @vakshalakiritharan7397
    @vakshalakiritharan7397 Рік тому

    Problem and solution for current economic crisis! Excellent words

  • @indikarru
    @indikarru Рік тому

    Great speech sir 💐💐💐

  • @tassyfarouk70
    @tassyfarouk70 Рік тому

    Excellent speech, very precise about future.

  • @naseerirshad6039
    @naseerirshad6039 Рік тому

    Great speech Sir. The lack of common sense is danger where it drive prosperous country into bankrupt country. The intellectual of this country should brave enough to correct the wrong political ideology of this country. When intellectuals are silence on unscientific myth, then it became as scientific on layman's view.

  • @peterpeiris6885
    @peterpeiris6885 Рік тому +3

    Fantastic “common sense “ take a bow sir👏🙏🙏

    • @moshe7242
      @moshe7242 Рік тому

      Reality and challenge of Sri Lankans...🙏 😥😥😥😥

  • @sathyani001
    @sathyani001 Рік тому +5

    A very good speech .
    But sir. You did not talk about the solutions 😄
    All we know he will have very tough future .
    So sir pls aware us about the solutions

  • @sdvlog69
    @sdvlog69 Рік тому +1

    Presented with summarized crystal clear issue for SL man made economic crisis. Our generation struggle three decade with civil crisis and when its finish this young generation may need to fight with another one at least another decade introduced by foolish people in power.

  • @fathimanisma8404
    @fathimanisma8404 Рік тому +2

    Just Perfect 👌

  • @addractive_yeji
    @addractive_yeji Рік тому +1

    wonderful sir

  • @sriyanmoraes435
    @sriyanmoraes435 Рік тому +2

    Great speech ..

  • @ramyawijesundara1508
    @ramyawijesundara1508 Рік тому

    Great speech sir..

  • @kavithaganeshamani3847
    @kavithaganeshamani3847 Рік тому +3

    Not only politicians also government servants like papets

  • @simpledimple957
    @simpledimple957 Рік тому +7

    The opening statement is classic. No Sri Lankan president has had a university degree.

    • @VishmiWijeratne
      @VishmiWijeratne Рік тому +2

      Doesn't Ranil have one. He graduated from University of Ceylon

    • @priyanthacoralage860
      @priyanthacoralage860 Рік тому

      D B විජේතුංග
      Ranil Wickramasi.....

    • @farinahashim4470
      @farinahashim4470 Рік тому +1

      @@VishmiWijeratne - if he did, it really doesn’t add up for much !!
      It simply adds insult to injury considering his apathetic performance.

    • @nalinfernando8093
      @nalinfernando8093 Рік тому

      @@VishmiWijeratne He wasn't elected. But, JRJ was a graduate.

    • @susodiniheva3844
      @susodiniheva3844 Рік тому +1

      If Sri Lanka produces talented graduates from government universities WHY those university rankings are very low with world rankings (1500, 1600)
      Lack of medicine. NO pharmaceutical industry to produce medicine.
      Lack of engineering talents
      At this crucial time we need electric trains and buses.
      According to COPE
      Why theses high ranking government servants graduated from the government universities rob national wealth of the country. WHERE Are the professional ETHNICS.
      In our schools we learn discipline. When they go to government universities WHY the students loose them. The developed nations produce most from innovations. They export them and deliver foreign exchange to their countries . In Sri Lanka lack of innovations and country became sad situation. WHAT is happening to our TAX money. Sri Lankan CITIZENS to know WHERE WE GO WRONG AND ASK FOR A PROPER SOLUTION

  • @Sinnadore
    @Sinnadore Рік тому +1

    "You have got something that no person who has been elected to the office of president of Sri Lanka has ever managed to get. You have got a University degree....."
    As per Wikipedia," President Wickremesinghe entered the Faculty of Law of the University of Ceylon at its Colombo Campus which is now the University of Colombo. After graduation, he completed the law exams at the Ceylon Law College and took oaths as an advocate in 1972"

    • @ensys1000
      @ensys1000 Рік тому

      Ranil Wickramasinghe was never elected.

  • @hareesonline
    @hareesonline Рік тому +1

    Very good one sir

  • @naveensooriyarachchi8234
    @naveensooriyarachchi8234 Рік тому +1

    Brilliant 👍

  • @vavavavavavvavava
    @vavavavavavvavava Рік тому

    Great Speech.

  • @SasakaKodithuwakku
    @SasakaKodithuwakku Рік тому

    Inspirational sir !!

  • @lankaranatunge7644
    @lankaranatunge7644 Рік тому

    Brilliant speech .

  • @ruwandesilva7643
    @ruwandesilva7643 Рік тому +3

    we salute YOU my LEGEND..karma is BEHIND these RASCALS n rouges in FUTURE

  • @dhammikaperamune7759
    @dhammikaperamune7759 Рік тому +4

    It’s pathetic that country is in deep darkness despite a plenty of intellectuals .

  • @mihindukulasooriya2807
    @mihindukulasooriya2807 Рік тому

    He is a good Schooler and worked as a private Secretary to Minister Gamini Dissanayaka who introduced high scale commissions under Mahawali.

  • @maureenfernando6776
    @maureenfernando6776 Рік тому

    Brilliant speech

  • @travelsdzoon223
    @travelsdzoon223 Рік тому

    One of my favourite proffessors ❤❤❤

  • @bhikkudhammasambhava1203
    @bhikkudhammasambhava1203 Рік тому +1

    🙏

  • @Anjana-qt8wt
    @Anjana-qt8wt Рік тому +1

  • @arkulendiran1961
    @arkulendiran1961 Рік тому +1

    👍

  • @crypticTV
    @crypticTV Рік тому

    0:50 happiest days in parents lives 😂😂
    7:35 1 paper per day published

  • @lalkumarasiridoluweera6881
    @lalkumarasiridoluweera6881 Рік тому +1

    Well said

  • @yamunamuniweera4395
    @yamunamuniweera4395 Рік тому

    What a valuable speech sir

    • @chanmalkumari
      @chanmalkumari Рік тому

      Very Professional and valuable speech as always.

  • @champjanlyn8740
    @champjanlyn8740 Рік тому

    👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰

  • @englishforsrilanka2535
    @englishforsrilanka2535 Рік тому

    0:24 Isn't Ranil Wickremasinghe a graduate of Law from the University of Colombo, which was formed called the University of Ceylon? Or was the "elected to the office of presidency in Sri Lanka" a jibe at the fact that he wasn't elected via a democratic election?
    Regardless, I enjoyed you speech. Luckily, most of the youngsters today have a back bone.

  • @RasmyMohamed
    @RasmyMohamed Рік тому +1

    Excellent sir. Unfortunately behind every tough decision the last government took there were intellectuals who supported and defended such wrong decisions. Our people prioritize myths and ancient ideologies over science. I think this is because of our exam oriented education system. That is what should be changed before anything.

  • @wasanthaheva2566
    @wasanthaheva2566 Рік тому

    Our best university has the world ranking close to 2000. We are way behind our neighboring countries. All we got during our time at the university was similar political rant. You have to go to a good university abroad for further studies to realize that. It is hard to believe Sri Lanka kept this vision going for many decades and at the same time expect to become a developed country.

    • @gaminikulasuriya7976
      @gaminikulasuriya7976 Рік тому

      Ranil Wick is not the first graduate to take the high office in politics of SL. It was S W R D Bandaranayake, who had better qualification, passed his Senior Cambridge examinations with distinctions in English, Latin, Greek and French, and gained the second Order of Merit in the British Empire that year. Delayed by the Great War, he entered Christ Church, Oxford (one of the colleges of Oxford University) , where he read philosophy, politics and economics, and graduated with honours in 1923. At Oxford, he was President of the Majlis Society; his contemporaries at Oxford included Anthony Eden. A keen debater and orator, took an active role in the Oxford Union, where he was elected junior treasurer. In 1924, he became a barrister and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple; on his return to Ceylon, he took oaths as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Then Dudley Senanayake who had University education, went on to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge to read for Natural Science Tripos and after graduation gained admission to the Middle Temple as a barrister J R Jayewardena was also a qualified Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon/Sri Lanka, and was also a President of SL. To me, the only qualification Ranil Wick has is "Backboneless clown, lost all the elections as the head of UNP, received only 237 votes at the last election, which included his & wife's two votes.

  • @mjjahitha5633
    @mjjahitha5633 Рік тому

    Please upload in Tamil translation

  • @kareemajayaweera8783
    @kareemajayaweera8783 Рік тому +2

    Great...most play it safe. We've got it wrong... yes sadly...lack of common sense and greed.

  • @samankangara6298
    @samankangara6298 Рік тому

    We have lot of scholars who can only talk and nicely tell what happened. Non of them capable of telling what to do...

  • @alijinnah4177
    @alijinnah4177 Рік тому +1

    "The common sense"
    The respectable VC.....or any high command, I think, he
    Mensing or his meanings here is...
    Most and Mostly of our country
    Voter's in every rank.....
    Don't have enough common sense....in using their votes...
    an select the members.

  • @janakadesilva4950
    @janakadesilva4950 Рік тому +1

    Sometimes people who go to universities have difficulty understanding what happened to Sri Lanka, but that's not because they can't understand it. it's just pure ego about their political idea.

  • @mohamedzanhar959
    @mohamedzanhar959 Рік тому

    This is what happens when academics and not professionals are incharge.

  • @chandanaweerasinghe9956
    @chandanaweerasinghe9956 Рік тому +2

    ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගනගන ඇවිල්ලා. මේක අහලා තේරුම් ගන්නම්...

  • @warsil3735
    @warsil3735 Рік тому +1

    You get your facts right ,what was shame 🤣 oresident JR jayaeadena was a graduate from university college then university of Colombo and Ramil
    Wickremasinghe is a graduate from university of Colombo .

  • @meatuplk3644
    @meatuplk3644 Рік тому +1

    The gist is.... Use common sense,

  • @verenahua4834
    @verenahua4834 Рік тому

    Long story. Common sense is long gone. Don bother or try looking for *common sense*. It doesn't exist any more.. ‼️😉😂

  • @keithkiruthikan3063
    @keithkiruthikan3063 Рік тому

    It was a good speech.. but going back to organic farming was a good decision but the implementation had no science behind it. That was the issue. Modern farming has made our farmers rely on GMO seeds.