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PawyiLee

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In Topic: Most Thai Teachers Fail In Their Own Subjects

2010-06-15 20:44:08

JackSterling, on 2010-06-15 20:19:05, said:

Oh this is all simple BS..,. In fact one girl I was having a conversation with at BIG C two days ago here in Chiang Mai never heard of Vietnam. She was about 26 years old.,..

Maybe she never heard of it the way you pronounced it.

In Topic: Most Thai Teachers Fail In Their Own Subjects

2010-06-15 20:35:53

richieudon, on 2010-06-09 19:35:19, said:

kevozman1, on 2010-06-09 18:47:37, said:

richieudon, on 2010-06-09 18:19:46, said:

kevozman1, on 2010-06-09 17:52:10, said:

Oh my god. No wonder when I asked peeople in Thailand with 13 years of education
and did not recognise such names as Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Dalai Lama and
Gandi. Could not point where Europe was or where the USA was. Could not tell me
a single planet in the Universe.

Most can't point to where Thailand is on a map of the world.
It seems to me that if it ain't Thailand it ain't taught, that's why everyone is so nationalistic and farangs are not important.
Most of the well educated attend schools abroad. Singapore, Uk etc.
It's hard to learn when you're not allowed to question.
I'm considering pulling my daughter out of school.
She's been there two years and still can't read numbers 1-10 if you jumble them around.
She can sing plenty of songs though.
It just seems a waste of money to me...

Excuse me, most people I know could point Thailand out on a map but I think
Europe and USA (Europe being a whiole continent) are more significant than
Thailand and not a fair comparison. Thank you.

Excuse me but I speak the truth. I've asked many ordinary people, children and adults "show me Thailand on this map".
Many have stared at it for a long time and can not show me where.
I think it is a very fair comparison. If I were Thai I would expect to know where in the world my country was.
I have read on Thaivisa of a teacher who brought in a globe to his classroom only to be told be his superiors to remove it.
They probably didn't want to "upset the apple cart" so to speak.
Thank you.

Did JFK own a globe?

In Topic: Most Thai Teachers Fail In Their Own Subjects

2010-06-11 08:59:13

Most can't point to where Thailand is on a map of the world.

Once a Thai asked me to point to my homeland from where we were standing. I'm from the East Coast of the US, twelve time zones away. What could I do but point to my feet?

Wow -- how could you be so stupid, as to bring a globe into the classroom -- didn't that teacher know that the Earth is flat?
Mmm. I love globes and reading maps, but cannot "read" the lay of the land so often get lost. With my Thai wife, it is the other way around.