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peelieorion · 25th November 2006, 15:42

I actually don't think that there is any desire at the top to suppress education, it's just that education in Thailand is primarily a business. So, they want to students to be happy and any learning that goes on is pretty much incidental.

If you got 20 of the drunkest Thais, put them in a room and asked them to come up with a curriculum for Thailand to help students learn, you'd get the Thai curriculum, they give the students no opporunity to think because they don't want them to think. Textbooks are too hard, students are allowed to answer questions with one word, everyone copies and no-one fails. The supression comes by not making standards, by not giving teachers the tools for he job and shocking training. J.D 100% agree.

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peelieorion peelieorion is..... Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,747 vCash: 43866320 Rep Power: 330	Re: cops, soldiers, image, power, and education I actually don't think that there is any desire at the top to suppress education, it's just that education in Thailand is primarily a business. So, they want to students to be happy and any learning that goes on is pretty much incidental. If you got 20 of the drunkest Thais, put them in a room and asked them to come up with a curriculum for Thailand to help students learn, you'd get the Thai curriculum, they give the students no opporunity to think because they don't want them to think. Textbooks are too hard, students are allowed to answer questions with one word, everyone copies and no-one fails. The supression comes by not making standards, by not giving teachers the tools for he job and shocking training. J.D 100% agree.