In the concluding section of the report, Wichit presented his views on the type of education the country's children should receive. Given his keen interest in personal development, it is not surprising that Wichit stressed the idea of character-building. In the past, he claimed, schools had only been concerned with providing children know- ledge of manners such as kindness, honesty, frugality, respectfulness. But they had failed to teach them determination, independence and responsibility, qualities that Wichit indicated were incompatible with the previous form of administration. Nor did students develop an admiration for progress or learn to "love the nation''. This latter weakness in the system was of great concern to Wichit, who said that it was vital