We can all contribute to good education

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We can all contribute to good education
Kornchanok Raksaseri
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BANGKOK: -- Education is a key factor in development. Besides the appointment of a new education minister (and the other Cabinet members), many topics such as university ratings and rankings have been the talk of the town recently.

But is education really confined to formal education in the classrooms?

@loudidea posted on Twitter: When you see the comparison of education quality in Asean like this, [the government] did not plan to improve, but is making it worse by having students recite poems and keep good deed records.

He was referring to the PM's idea of having students recite the 12 national core values so they can remember them.

Many people disagree with this, saying that moral cultivation important for society.

@kafaak Thailand's educational system is full of problems. It's so explicit. Foreign research results also showed this, but the educational authorities refuse to accept this.

After the authorities shut down the seminar at Thammasat University on the fall of dictatorship in other countries, Thai universities appear to have been banned from discussing politics.

On the other hand, Yale University's campus in Singapore announced that it would show the banned film "To Singapore With Love" with the dean of the Yale-NUS (National University of Singapore which got the highest rank among Asian universities at 22nd place) saying academic freedom and discussion are bedrock principles for the college.

At the same event, Sujane Kan posted his thanks to Mark Zuckerberg as he can learn more and faster on Facebook than from TV.

After all, the media and the Internet are huge sources of knowledge with its many areas of learning.

Meanwhile, other campaigns have followed on social media from the Ice Bucket Challenge. Popular campaigns right now include the introduction of 10 or 15 books that "stay with" Facebook users. By sharing these lists, people can learn more about what titles are worth reading.

Likewise, the campaign for film lists is also well accepted. Meanwhile, the "20 Facts About Me" campaign has been spread so that friends know more about each other.

While social media can provide education through informal discussion, it must also be kept in mind that these media outlets are major sources of rumours. Luckily, if a person cares enough they may find the sources of information and knowledge, as well as evidences of what happened before having a thought for their own. YouTube is also a good source of videos as evidence of events or people's speeches.

Every coin has two sides.

@Ryn_writes posted that many media outlets, which also use social media, publicised the names and pictures of criminal victims even before their families learn about their fates. Doing so was a violation of privacy and should be stopped.

"How would you feel if it was about your family and you learn the bad news from Twitter?"

Meanwhile, other Twitter users also discussed Thai media violation of people's rights by publishing the names of suspects before people are formally charged.

Pacharapapon Poomprapan and some journalists started a campaign to stop the recording and sharing of violent videos.

Please help change our society. Start with easy measures. Don't promote these things by forwarding or sharing them.

When you see these clips, what good do you get from them? (They make me feel depressed.)

Internet users should realise that they are part of real life education. With an intention to make society better, all should learn to be both good teachers and good students at the same time.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/We-can-all-contribute-to-good-education-30243707.html

-- The Nation 2014-09-20

[jaltsc]

Do they teach the concepts of "cryptic" and "fragmented" in journalism classes? Obviously not. I have no idea what the writer is attempting to say, but he has proven that the education system is in dire need of improvement.

[tingtong]

Education is not confined to the classroom.

But it wouldn't hurt to take place there too.

[englishoak]

Rambling meaningless article.

[Crazy chef 1]

Do they teach the concepts of "cryptic" and "fragmented" in journalism classes? Obviously not. I have no idea what the writer is attempting to say, but he has proven that the education system is in dire need of improvement.

+1.good comment

[kalbo123]

@kafaak Thailand's educational system is full of problems. It's so explicit. Foreign research results also showed this, but the educational authorities refuse to accept this.

This could be the core of the problem.

[maewang99]

Kind of funny, but the posted article is quite a bit over the top.... pick another topic.

Edited September 20, 2014 by maewang99

[fab4]

After the authorities shut down the seminar at Thammasat University on the fall of dictatorship in other countries, Thai universities appear to have been banned from discussing politics.

That's not quite true, there's more that you can't talk about publicly - prayuth said that topics for discussion must not be democracy, elections or criticism of the government.

He also asked if he had done anything to damage the country since he took power. Well, that's up for discussion...........................actually, it's not, because you can't.

Edited September 20, 2014 by fab4

[PungShoeWrote]

Joke

[brd]

Let's look forward starting The modern appropriate education at home by the parents taking responsibility not to have to earn their kids respect before their kids become adults but to deserve their kids to listen to their parents, to do the right things learning not thinking freely they know better, then selected or appointed teachers will be seconding accordingly in harmony with the parents.

Giving up for Thai culture reasons is over knowingly old habbits die hard.

[nong38]

The first thing the education minister should do is to ask the question "what are trying to achieve and is it fit for purpose ( will it take Thailand forward into the world)?

Its ok learning th core values, that should not take long, its ok teaching people how to survive when there is little cash but lets get a true picture of how brigh the students are and what they are going to be doing in their lives. There is a lot of world outside of Thailand, Asean will soon be found, but there is a lot more out there after that. Places of learning and the media generally seem to ignore these issues probably because they have non or little knowledge of it themselves, it needs to change, the change needs to embraced.

Learning is not just a one way dialogue, students need to be encouraged to question and think for themselves, teachres are not gods they just think they are when in the classroom, fill up lessons will useles time filling exercises which leaves no time for the students to assess how good the teacher is in the subject they are supposed to be an expert in.

This system of no one ever fails is at the root of the problems in education, until they get a true picture of the standards "doomed to failure" springs to mind and does "fail to prepare, preapre to fail."

As for the article......................no comment.

Edited September 20, 2014 by nong38

[klauskunkel]

We can all contribute to good education

Yes, you can, but you won't.

Why? Because there is not enough sanook in it.

[belg]

thai education, this sentence says it all

"Sujane Kan posted his thanks to Mark Zuckerberg as he can learn more and faster on Facebook than from TV."

euh ... learn, facebook, tv, more ?

learn what exactly ?

do thai universities have facebook -social studies on their program ?

how many expats , working, retired or non-working would like to help the community by teaching english or other usefull skills, but do not , because you need a damn workpermit to help them for free or risk deportation !!!!!

Edited September 20, 2014 by belg

[Seastallion]

There's quite an ironical angle to kun Raksaseri's article, assuming kun Raksaseri was educated in Thailand.

It starts off well with a good rhetorical question; But is education really confined to formal education in the classrooms?

But follows with inane suggestions such as games such as "20 facts about me" are educational.

As a previous poster said, the attitude of education must have sanook pervades, even to graduated journalists.

I'd be tempted, if I were in power, to absolutely forbid any sanook whatsoever. To take the education system by the scruff and give it an unholy shaking. It is to late for a softly softly slow approach to reforms.

I see it with my wife's private students, which range in age from 5 to 18.

The 5 year old, and one very bright 8 year old, I have hope for because we both believe that memorising is useful but only with understanding, and thus try to instill understanding. Those two, one because he's not yet too badly tainted and the other because she's genuinely smart and is eager to learn, are starting to get it.

As for the rest of the students, it's an uphill battle because the bad habits and lack of learning skills is very deeply ingrained.

[kalbo123]

After the authorities shut down the seminar at Thammasat University on the fall of dictatorship in other countries, Thai universities appear to have been banned from discussing politics.

That's not quite true, there's more that you can't talk about publicly - prayuth said that topics for discussion must not be democracy, elections or criticism of the government.

He also asked if he had done anything to damage the country since he took power. Well, that's up for discussion...........................actually, it's not, because you can't.

Ok.. well that makes it all good then..

Edited September 20, 2014 by kalbo123