Everyone in Thailand realises the importance of education. The majority wants to see a vast improvement in the standard of education whilst a minority wants to retain the old ways. I have two boys – one attends a government school and the other at a fee paying school. The elder has a very blinkered approach to learning with no ambition whilst the younger thinks outside the box wants to question and learn. Education should be a happy experience and experimental not forced labour. Inspectors visited a school recently but they did not speak English. How can they inspect properly? Just one example.
I have been 21 years in Thailand and 20 years married to a Thai government official working for the education department. What I can say from experience and knowledge is that : Overloaded with bureaucracy , useless paperwork , one useless seminar after another and only on weekends , no time for own family and children any more, no time to teach or concentrate on teaching any more , heavy stress symptoms, pushing from the top, no mood, looking forward to retire, developing of ignorance and disinterest, incompetence of superiors at top level, suicide thoughts, students loose interest and so on. FORGET IT ! Worst education in Asia
Meanwhile, the glossy new "12 core values of the Thai people" being foisted on the Thai people must entrench the appalling education standards. It is hard to believe that the persistent failure of Thai education is not intentional. Does any intelligent person (educated or not, if a Thai education, preferably not) believe that having children recite a set of repressive commandments that focus primarily on mindlessly following authority can possibly benefit Thai education or Thai students? When something so foundational to policy is against a decent education, progress is most unlikely.
Those at the top don't want a better educated mass of people that would be hard to control. That's why nothing of substance changes no matter how many complaints or articles like this are published.
Those at the top don't want a better educated mass of people that would be hard to control. That's why nothing of substance changes no matter how many complaints or articles like this are published.
Thai students must be provided an education beyond just creating a cohort of drone factory workers. They must be taught to think critically, to challenge traditional assumptions, and to improve their ability to communicate both in Thai and at least one critical foreign language, such as English. High ethical standards and respect for authority are not incompatible with these objectives.
Thai people are as able and competent as any other people. The problem is that for years those at the top have made it a policy to prevent ordinary Thai people from having the opportunities they deserve, by manipulating Thai culture ,education and religion.
An education system should produce clear thinking individuals, not just parroting mental clones.
What's the point of publishing such thorough, almost technical analysis, when it's obvious that the current regime just wants to re-enforce the parroting habits and not at all improve the ability of the lower classes, let's not say the minorities.
Well this is really going to help .... Not a word about that Teachers and the Ministry of Education don't understand the psychology of learning , and that allot of the curriculum is outdated . Obviously the article didn't touch on the concept of making the children THINK .