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Try snail mail
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/01/2026
» Re: "90-day puzzle" & "Ninety-day riddle", (PostBag, Jan 15 & 16).
Learn before driving
Postbag, Published on 27/05/2025
» Re: "Fund lures Thai dropouts back to school", (BP, May 22).
There's a lot in a name
Postbag, Published on 28/01/2024
» Re: "A Stroll In Song Wat", (Life, Jan 24).
Legalise casinos
News, Postbag, Published on 31/05/2021
» Re: "GLO must pay B1.65bn in damages", (BP, May 28).
A silly syllabus
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/11/2020
» Former Education Minister Somsak Prissananantakul favours providing students with a better understanding of history (BP, Nov 3), so long as a process known as chamra prawattisat be undertaken, in which academics with differing opinions come together to agree on a standard interpretation. This proposal sums up much of what is wrong with Thai education, and perhaps Thai culture as well. Why have a standard interpretation of history? So it can be crammed down students' throats for later regurgitation on command? History is like a photograph. It captures events from a specific angle, with a specific depth of field, and perhaps through various filters. Why not expose students to multiple interpretations and let them, through discussion, identify the biases in each and, in the process, develop critical thinking skills?
History repeats
News, Postbag, Published on 05/10/2020
» Re: "Activists banned from speaking about 1976 event", (BP, Oct 4).
Make students good
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/07/2020
» Re: "Cool heads must prevail", (Editorial, July 21).
Poor meant to suffer
News, Postbag, Published on 21/09/2019
» Re: "Ubon flood saga catches govt napping", (Opinion, Sept 20). The whole problem has many answers. Corruption, low education, but mostly the higher-ups just don't care about poor people and especially those from the North and Northeast even more so.
Stop the ignorance
News, Postbag, Published on 30/01/2019
» Re: "Weeping BNK48 singer apologises for swastika T-shirt", (BP, Jan 27).