Prayut’s 12 values encourage great loyalty, awful education standards

Lee Kuan Yew was once asked if he worried for Singapore’s future in relation to her much bigger and much more resource-laden neighbours. Lee smiled, looked into the camera, and said “what are their education systems like?”
A country’s future prosperity is directly related to the proficiency of its current education system, and it is clear that Thailand’s future is not going to go well. 
How much more evidence is needed? Effective education reform is the single greatest need for the Kingdom of Thailand, and the current education system is the single greatest strategic threat to its future prosperity.
Reform now, or watch your neighbours fly past you on their way to a prosperous future. It is one or the other.
Samui Bodoh
 Rankings are useful but tell only a little of the story. In the case of Thailand, I think the condition of education is actually worse than rankings would uncover. 
I agree with the above. They need to change. First though they must accept the system is broken and that they might not be in the best position to fix it. And this is the hardest thing since such an admission would be a huge national loss of face. 
Fex Bluse
Trouble is it’s pointless fixing higher education until you fix kindergarten through high school education. Without fixing the raw material for college, it’s pretty worthless even talking about rankings.
We put my stepson through Thai private high school, and looking back I think the best I did was pay for better quality friends. The education was still appalling. My wife, having been to college in the US, understood better than me the pressures he would be under after he graduated high school and headed off to Chicago, given the reality of the truly appalling Thai school system. The terrible Thai schools are designed to process kids, so they can be processed through equally appalling Thai universities.
There is a reason why the hi-so parents send their kids overseas. Thai degrees are practically worthless outside of Thailand. My stepson struggled mightily during his freshman year, and honestly if I had to do it all again, we should have repatriated before he entered high school.
So, university rankings? Give me a break, tip of the iceberg problem.
GinBoy2
Education and sakdina don’t mix. One of them is losing out.
DrTuner
This comes as no surprise and will only continue to worsen if the PM’s guide to education standards are followed. There is only one value among all these which is related to education which is No 4. The rest are just moralistic and indoctrination guidelines for teachers and students.
Ultimately, in theory, Thailand will become a country with people of high loyalty but little or no education.
Prayut Chan-o-cha’s 12 values of education:
1. Loyalty to the Nation, the Religion, and the Monarchy.
2. Honesty, sacrifice, endurance, and noble ideology for the greater good.
3. Gratitude for parents, guardians, and teachers.
4. Diligence in acquiring knowledge, via school studies and other methods.
5. Preserving the Thai customs and tradition.
6. Morality and good will toward others.
7. Correct understanding of democracy with the King as Head of State.
8. Discipline, respect for law, and obedience to the older citizens.
9. Constant consciousness to practice good deeds all the time, as taught by His Majesty the King.
10. Practice of Self-Sufficient Economy in accordance with the teaching of His Majesty the King.
11. Physical and mental strength. Refusal to surrender to religious sins.
12. Uphold the interest of the nation over oneself.
Cadbury
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