The Bandarwela Madya Maha Vidyalaya (Bandarawela Central College) is a public school situated in Uva province, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1948 as a section of Royal College Colombo. This is famous as "Light of Uva" and it is a National School which controlled by the central government as opposed to the Provincial Council and provides both primary and Secondary education. Bandarawela Central college has produced many of the undergraduates from Badulla District for local universities annually.
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“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer. Oxford is Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet, and Sheffield grinds steel. They know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit from both. The reading men are kept by hard walking, hard riding, and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition, and two days before the examination, do not work but lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)