re: "Maths lags in innovation race" (BP, July 29)
Dear editor,
Enough of the complaining from pesky academics of failures in traditional Thai education! It has already been dictated that 2+2=5. Combined with the 12 Virtues of Thainess, these incontestable truths of the uniquely Thai way suffice to ensure a properly educated mass of menial workers for the slightly more equal class of people, all in strict accord with Thai tradition, whereby the sons and daughters of the best type are sent overseas for a few extra educational trimmings not available to the captive domestic masses.
Sadly, the Internet and rising literacy in English is undermining those best traditions of Thainess, even threatening the ancient tradition that 2+2=5, the cornerstone of Thai mathematics, whose sovereign independence from Western imperialism has been rigorously defended by selfless army politicians these many decades past to make Thailand the nation it is today.
Who needs Pythagoras or Euclid when you have home-grown luminaries oozing ineffable truths?
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on July 30, 2019, under the title "Pythagoras who?" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1721171/unacceptable-attitude
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