Thammasat Secondary School’s giant leap for Thai education

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”. After the mental rebound, I started to write this article.
It is quite clear that TSS’s “change step” wasn’t an overnight process, but still I would like to mention the following. The Finnish and Singaporean systems cannot be copied to the Thai environment “as is”. Thai cultural/social/regional influential differences must be considered. Initiating this new method at the kindergarten level would increase the odds on good results.
While I agree that the path of researching the successful Thai schools, to distill and implement the significant positive results generating ingredients, is quite time-consuming, it would also make the intensive search for all kind of local cultural/social/regional influential differences, compulsory in the Finnish and Singaporean approach, somewhat redundant.
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