re: "Challenges to human rights in Asia" (BP, Opinion, December 12, 2019)
Dear editor,Another thoughtful piece by Vitit Muntarbhorn. It remains too true in Thai classrooms that "there is a need to promote participation and and (sic) critical analysis among learners. However, classrooms are often undemocratic and student participation is limited by lectures and learning-by-rote." The consistently low grades of Thailand's extravagantly expensive public education attest to its failure to actually educate Thai youth.
Thailand will be making clear progress towards overcoming the traditional moral failures of conservative Thai culture enforced by those hiding behind bad tradition when there is healthy debate on both sides of such topics as the role of the military in Thai society, which surely deserves the respect of being critically assessed and known for its true worth. As it stands these many decades, the suppression of free speech by unjust law ensures that the Thai people often have no idea what the Thai people even think on matters claimed, with zero supporting evidence, to be of supreme importance to the nation.
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 December 13, 2019, under the title "Immoral tradition" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1814904/immoral-tradition
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