It has taken a period of 10 years since the 1999 Education Act before the executives of the ministry's education agencies agreed to the proposal to reduce the role of rote learning and to adopt analytical thinking as a fundamental teaching protocol. This has been a long time coming.
I am worried over how this is going to be initiated. A recent article in the Bangkok Post informed us that basic analytical skills would be taught in Grades 1 to 3, ad advanced analytical thinking in Grades 4 to 6 and secondary school.
As with the most of the educational initiatives in Thailand, it is the implementation that lets us down. Just how are we supposed to do this? I don't see how it can be started across the board at all levels of education as this is something that takes time for students to understand, especially when they have never been exposed to something as profound before.