N. U. Jayawardena - Influence of St. Aloysius & its Teachers
Courtesy – The Island of 08.06.2025 (Excerpted from N.U. JAYAWARDENA The first five decades) By Kumari Jayawardena and Jennifer Moragoda Influence of St. Aloysius’ and Its Teachers Early photo of the new Reading Room and Library (c.1923) So my life from rags to riches, from elementary education to self-acquired knowledge, from shattering adversity to rewarding accomplishment, is an epitome of the determination, the tenacity, the purposefulness, and, above all, the cultural values, inculcated in me, as a Buddhist, by the teaching and the example of the Christian Fathers and Teachers who moulded my up-bringing in the impressionable age of my youth. I then learnt never to take no for an answer! (N.U. Jayawardena, The Aloysian 1915-1990 Diamond Souvenir, p.256) (Chapter IV continued) Compared to the other schools NU had attended, St. Aloysius’ with its numerous facilit...