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Without education reform, Thailand 4.0 is empty talk

Without education reform, Thailand 4.0 is empty talk

Re: “ Can we dream of Thailand 4.0 if politics is stuck in 0.4?”, The Nation, yesterday. 

Sutthichai Yoon writes: “We have just completed a ‘lost decade’ in Thai politics. But if things remain as they are now, we are entering a decade of abysmal failures.”
I disagree with the author’s assessment that it has been a “lost decade”, despite all the troubles that have occurred.
Thailand has seen several elections where the choice of the people has formed a government, and that is no small thing in the development of a country. Many will argue that the government(s) formed were crap (I’ll ignore that point for now), but it is important not to lose sight of the fact that it occurred. When was the government of China democratically elected? 
I take further heart from the fact that even the military junta currently in power is trying to figure out a way that they can get a democratic “mandate” of some sort; governing without one is seen as not viable in the longer term. That is a good thing.
Hopefully Thailand will continue down the road where a government needs consent of the people, and a truly democratic, representative government will emerge. Trying to be optimistic...
Samui Bodoh
I repeat what was said many months ago in the Nikkei Business Review. Prayut was told by a number of Thai business leaders that 4.0 was unobtainable unless the education system is reformed. Too few technically able students are being produced. Thailand has more than enough lawyers and accountants. 
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