re: "Boost for Thai language teaching in far South" (BP, October 28, 2021)
Dear editor,
On reading that "Border patrol police will take over teaching the Thai language to children in the far South from 2023," who could not be yet further impressed by the extraordinary competence in yet more areas of those guardians of the nation's portals.
But why not teach English as well as or instead of Thai, thereby laying more solid grounds for a better future for the subjects of instruction?
And if the underlying concern is of weaknesses in the far South's children's ethics and understanding, for which Thai is seen as a means to inculcate the right thinking, why not have the border patrol lads directly teach ethics and epistemology? Or are there after all some limits to their areas of competence?
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 October 31, 2021, under the title "Thai language or ethics?" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2206895/money-isnt-everything
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