Look beyond borders, PM tells children

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Look beyond borders, PM tells children

Published: 12 Jan 2013 at 19.24
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has called on children to be outward looking and think beyond borders as the country becomes part of a larger community.

A girl enjoys activities at the CAT Telecom head office on Chaeng Watthana Road. (Photo by Apichit Jinakul)

Children should get to know Thailand's neighbours in Southeast Asia and countries outside the region better, she said in a Children's Day interview with "young spokespersons" at Government House.

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buckseeda
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Discussion 4 : 13 Jan 2013 at 11.374
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The children ranked corruption as the most undesirable behaviour of adults (44%) followed by quarrels and violence (22%) and drugs (16%).

That's why every day on TV soaps we have a daily diet of undesirable behaviour.

The child/adult divide has gradually been eroded to a point that this will soon become acceptable behaviour in Thailand (if it hasn't already become so already).
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Discussion 3 : 13 Jan 2013 at 00.203
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Nothing is going to improve the creativity and thoughts of our children in Thailand if the same archaic educational system is not revamp. Sorry to dampened the parents hope in this statement!
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"Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has called on children to be outward looking and think beyond borders as the country becomes part of a larger community."

Lofty words. However, how does she propose children do this when the Thai education system is inward-looking, absolutist and dictorial with the aim of creating mindless robots?
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Discussion 1 : 12 Jan 2013 at 22.441
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There is a little speck of light at the end of Thai political tunnel. 44% of children ranked corruption as undesirable behavior for politicians.The next year poll should add "Should corruption be tolerated at all/not at all?"With disputes and fightings around the borders children know and they look beyond that too. But just look don't touch like the signs in the museums is passive interaction.children later will be full-fledged citizens,they need to learn more than look. they have to question,discus and not blindly follow the blinded leaders. Talk alone and not get the job done is not accepable.
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