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Bridging the Gap: Education and Social Change in Thailand |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: Ben Barber |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,347 Words, 14,826 Characters |
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Muntana Muang-Un, twenty-two, bows with palms pressed together in reverence before a shrine to King Ramkamhaeng. Smoke spirals upward from her incense sticks as Muntana asks for success in her exams. After she descends the hill, she explains to a visitor that she was appealing for the best grades in her exams and for a good job when she graduates.
Some say Thailand's ancient caste system remains so strong that it will be difficult for Muntana and other Ramkamhaeng graduates to find jobs in the banks, export firms, and other moneymaking companies in Thailand's booming economy. "I find that the students from Chulalongkorn and Thammasat [the Harvard and Yale of Thailand] are much better prepared," says one office manager at the UN regional office in Bangkok. Others say that anyone who can ...
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...ation in the democratic process--can be linked to the education system. "So long as people are uneducated, they will continue to be victims of up-country power and coercion," he says.
For Muntana and thousands like her, reaching far beyond the worlds of their parents, the route to freedom and the power to live as they wish lies in the continued expansion of access to education in Thailand.
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