Reasons Thailand Education Suck like Hell

1. PURELY PERSONAL REASONS
WHY THAILAND’S
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
SUCK LIKE HELL
MATUMIT SOMBUNJAROEN
V1.0
2015/07/28

2. PERSONAL INTRODUCTION
I received Education from Thailand, Japan, UK, USA, and Australia
So, at the very least, from a Global Stand Point,
I know what kind of Education is SUCK Like Hell

3. THAILAND’S STATUS
To Summarize things at a glance,
Thailand’s Education Ranking is amongst Regional Worsts

4. INTERNALLY,
Local Firms are self aware of the Abomination
And Some even Black Listed
Graduates from Certain Universities

5. MORE OVER,
HOWEVER

6. MORE OVER, In this Slide,
I will explain why this is not due to
Educational Institute’s Faults
But Rather,
The Poor Design of Social Functions and
Educational System as a Whole

7. THE THINGS THAT I WILL EXPLAIN
1. How Education work in General
2. The Stuffs that didn’t work right in Thailand

8. MORE OVER,
How Education
Work in General

9. LET’S START WITH HOW LEARNING WORK
Input Absorption
Input – Listening Observation, Experiments, etc
Absorption –
The Period that it take for an individual to understand the Inputs
Learning come in 2 Major Phases,

10. DEPENDING ON FIELD OF STUDY,
Top Student
Average
Each Individuals have different Absorption Ratio
Well, this is easy
…Please give me a Month

11. THE THING IS,
Top Student
Average
95
…56…
Teacher
Well Done!!!
You’re a good example
for everyone!!
Seriously?
Can’t you even try harder?
Absorption Ratio affect Short Term performance,
And it is used to measured Grades and IQ

12. MORE OVER,
However!
Unlike what many people choose to judge,
There is nothing Wrong with
Having Low Grades or IQ

13. HERE’S THE REASON
Emotion Control
Compassion
Out of Field Learning
Grades and IQ
do not measure other Factors
That might be needed
to specific profession
6Yrs in College
10Yrs in College
Both trying
To become
A Doctor
For an Experience-based Profession,
As long as one do not give up,
Even a Person with Low Absorption
Ratio can become one eventually

14. A CERTAIN QUOTE TO SUPPORT CLAIM
Dr Somchai Sombunjaroen
Co-Founder of Thailand’s
National Cancer Research Institute
“If you want to be a Doctor,
You have to fight with books.
You don’t have to be
a Top Student just to do that!”

15. MORE OVER, BTW,
Don’t bother to google
where I got the quote from,
He said it every time
in Relative Meetings

16. MORE OVER,What Grades and IQ actually measured,
Do you understand
Things that were taught to you
AND
Is whether or not
your answer is acceptable
to the person who graded you

17. AN OBJECTIVE QUESTION
5 + 8 x 2 = ?
The Answer is 21
<= This is the one absolute Correct Answer
However, if you weren’t taught [Order of Operation]
You might answer 26 and get it wrong,
not due to being incompetence,
but because you simply do not know about it

18. CULTURAL BASED QUESTION
What is the Real Name of
Emperor Tang Taizhong?
The Answer is Li Shimin
If you are not a Chinese or study Chinese History,
Would giving out wrong answer for this
make you an incompetent?

19. A SUBJECTIVE QUESTION
Can Buddhist Monk get Marry?
There is actually no absolute Answer for this
Depending on various factors,
such as Sub-Sects and Regions,
It can be either True or False, or even Both

20. A REALLY STUPID SUBJECTIVE QUESTION
This came from a true story
The teacher got scolded
By the Headmaster later though
Kindergarten
child
Kindergarten
Teacher
Draw an Apple
Apple is Red!
I’ll give you an F

21. ALSO,
Top Class Companies like Google don’t care
About your Educational Background

22. MORE OVER,
So, the Thing that matter most is not the Grade,
But whether or not
you have the Skills and Traits
Necessary to the specific Task

23. MORE OVER,
Let start describing on
what is wrong
with Thailand

24. THIS IS HOW CHILD EDUCATION WORK
Child Teenager Young Adult
Physical and Mental Development
Morales and Responsibility
Fundamental
Academic
Fundamental
Specialty
Kindergarten Primary
Secondary
Junior High
Advance
Specialty
College

25. THIS IS HOW THAILAND IS
Child
TEACH THEM EVERYTHING
Kindergarten Primary
Secondary
Junior High
College

26. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN THAI COLLEGE
Morale and
Responsibility
Fundamental
Academic
Fundamental
Specialty
Advanced
Specialty
Instead of spending times study Advanced Specialty,
Students still have to learn things that
other countries did in Primary to High School
Year1 Year2 Year2 Year4

27. MORE OVER,
Also, this is a decree made by
Ministry of Education,
As such,
University cannot oppose it

28. MORE OVER,
Let’s talk about
Teacher Quality

29. MORE OVER,Let me make one thing clear,
There are Good and Bad Teachers
Regardless of Nationality,
And I regard Some Teachers in Thailand
as being the World’s Finest

30. THIS IS A JOB OF A TEACHER
Teach, Consults,
Stuffs that have
direct contact with Students
Research
Stuffs to teach

31. THIS IS A JOB OF A THAI TEACHER
Teach,
Consults
Research
Writing Reports
To satisfy
Grading Committee

32. HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED
Gov Need to measure
Education Level
Grading Committee
Formed
Grading Committee
Pushed all responsibility to Teachers
Teachers
has no time to do
Teaching or ResearchGrading Committee
cant do it by themselves

33. MORE OVER,
Seriously,
Not even a Howard Professor
Can become a Good Teacher
Under this condition

34. MORE OVER,
Let’s talk about
Curriculum and
Homework

35. GOOD EXAMPLE NO.1
Finland has one of the best Education System in the world,
And there is no Homework nor Subject

36. GOOD EXAMPLE NO.2
Sudbury-Model Schools do not even have Curriculum,
And yet, they have a really high College Admission rate

37. THIS IS HOW THAILAND IS
Average
…56…
Teacher
I’ll give you more
Homework
This, on top of an over-average long-hours
School Curriculum Times
It’s
Summer
OK, here’s a Homework
Don’t
Get it
This Homework
Will solve your problem

38. THIS IS THE REASON WHY THIS IS BAD
Knowledge Absorption Process
Take place after a Rest from the Subject
Without both Short Term and Long Term Rest,
Mental Strains will shutdown the Absorption
Absorption

39. HERE IS A DIAGRAM
Exercise Rest
Physical
Recovery
Became
Stronger
Study Rest Absorption
Became
Smarter
Exercise
More
Exercise
Physical
Strain
Became
Weaker
Study
More
Study
Mental
Strain
Became
Dumber

40. It’s the same thing when you cant solve a problem,
But suddenly figured out a solution
when quitting for the day or trying to go to sleep
To Programmers out there,

41. MORE OVER,
Let’s talk about
Bad Guardianship

42. A CONTINUAL FROM THIS
As such, it is also common that what Student study,
Is determined by their Parent or Guardian, even in College
Child
Kindergarten Primary
Secondary
Junior High
College
Even when entering College,
Students in Thailand are treated as being a Child

43. A COMMON SCENARIO
Me? Average Grade,
I’ll just do drawing from
Junior High
What is this nonsense?
You wont find a Job,
You must Study Engineering!!!
I want to be
An Artist!!!
But I don’t want to be
An Engineer!
Fine, but after you got
An Engineering Degree,
Then you are free to do as you want

44. A DIAGRAM
Normal Study
Study just to Graduate
Start on
Specialized Study
Kindergarten Primary
Secondary
Junior High
Advance
Study
College

45. THE RESULT
Graduate with Good Grade
But cannot compete with others
Has to quit Dream
Graduate with average Grade
But became famous in the industry

46. HERE’S THE REASON
Success in a Profession,
Is determined by how young the person start
and the time spent on the topic
Skills = [Absorption Rate x Time]
Limit 0 => Talent Limit
Where Talent Limit is a variable dependent on how young the person Start

47. ALSO
Having an Engineering Degree,
Do not guarantee that the person will be
success in the profession
Scientific Professions require more than
Just Good Grades to be success

48. MORE OVER,
To all the Parent out there,
Are you sure that your Goodwill is
the best thing for your child?

49. MORE OVER,
Finally,
a Final Word

50. When will the “Adults” learned that
people do not seek Education
as a Selling Point in Entertainment!?
Seriously,

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Different Sects of Buddhism
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