Teachers Are The Key To Education Reforms And Improvements, Top Educators Agree

[Kilgore Trout]

Teachers need appropriate pay to attract the best minds available to the job in the first place.They need incentives to upgrade qualifications and skills. Teachers need a supportive, modern environment to work in, which presupposes they are properly trained in the first place. What Thailand doesn't need is over-remunerated "experts" to tell them what they already know, especially those from countries such as the USA, whose system is a model for educational failure. Spend the money where it really needed...the future is with our children and they deserve every opportunity to be educated appropriately.

Not sure what you mean by educational failure, thats a very vague statement. There is a big problem with regard to education in the US, the inequality resulting from funding being based on property tax.

However, go to a middle class neighborhood in the US and you will see excellent schools, excellent teachers and a very high level of education; some of the best in the world imho.

The real task in the US is giving an equal education/opportunity to poor and minority students.

[Scott]

I believe this topic is about Thailand, not the US.

[cup-O-coffee]

Teachers need appropriate pay to attract the best minds available to the job in the first place.They need incentives to upgrade qualifications and skills. Teachers need a supportive, modern environment to work in, which presupposes they are properly trained in the first place. What Thailand doesn't need is over-remunerated "experts" to tell them what they already know, especially those from countries such as the USA, whose system is a model for educational failure. Spend the money where it really needed...the future is with our children and they deserve every opportunity to be educated appropriately.

Not sure what you mean by educational failure, thats a very vague statement. There is a big problem with regard to education in the US, the inequality resulting from funding being based on property tax.

However, go to a middle class neighborhood in the US and you will see excellent schools, excellent teachers and a very high level of education; some of the best in the world imho.

The real task in the US is giving an equal education/opportunity to poor and minority students.

To get back on track, and regarding education, this comment makes me think, "What Thailand is, the U.S. is swiftly becoming. What the U.S. was, Thailand never was and will never be." Comparing the twain is an exercise in futility.