The referred article emphasises the need to analyse the methodology, applied by successful Thai schools. My enthusiasm, caused by the Thammasat Secondary School’s (TSS) article, ie: “Making students, parents think twice” – was tempered 24 hours later by a report: “Unesco says schools failing kids”. The Finnish and Singaporean systems cannot be copied to the Thai environment “as is”. Thai cultural/social/regional influential differences must be considered. Despite my expressed thoughts, I want to conclude with a variant of Neil Armstrong’s legendary sentence: “This is one ‘small’ step by Thammasat Secondary School, but probably one giant leap for Thai education.”Dirk Sumter

Source: The Nation Bangkok October 29, 2017 18:11 UTC