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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?
Time to pipe down?
News, Postbag, Published on 05/09/2019
» I sympathise with expats who are living a miserable life because of the controversial TM30 form which many expats believe is a tool to pressure them to pack up and leave.
Illiterate authorities
News, Postbag, Published on 23/08/2019
» Re: "Prayut no 'dictator'", (PostBag, Aug 20).
Open your eyes
News, Postbag, Published on 27/06/2019
» Re: "FFP must clarify", (PostBag, June 25). Does Vint Chavala seriously believe, or believe that anyone else believes, that Thailand needs the amazing excess of army generals living high off the nation? For what, exactly? The most conspicuous achievement of that extraordinary number of army generals has for many decades been to protect the existence of generals busily plotting political careers allied to unusual wealth, which many suspect to be the primary reason Thailand has been so afflicted by military coups against its form of democratic government with a constitutional monarchy.
Set in stone
News, Postbag, Published on 05/01/2019
» Re: "Government admits election delay", (BP, Jan 4).
Inspiring science
News, Postbag, Published on 28/11/2018
» Re: "Mars InSight spacecraft lands on Red Planet", (Online, Nov 27).
In defence of Trump
News, Postbag, Published on 11/06/2018
» Barry Kenyon's June 8 letter, "A coup redefined", is misguided, flawed, with an untrue comparison of President Donald Trump to, of all things, the Thai junta and Hun Sen.
Biblical timekeeping
News, Postbag, Published on 15/02/2018
» In his Feb 12 column, Khun Veera Prateepchaikul said: "Poaching probe shows signs of slippage. Forty-eight days! Why so long for a case which is not complicated at all?"
Leave Yingluck be
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.
Vulgarity on display
News, Postbag, Published on 09/12/2017
» While watching some poor old half-naked, badly deformed saleng struggle to push his empty ramshackle cart along the road this morning, I thought of the vulgar ostentatious display of wealth by our clearly insecure deputy prime minister this week.