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Annex 2: Inaugur ugural Address and Keyno ynote Speech 185 Ladies and Gentlemen, I have recognized that the economic crisis that Thailand and other countries are currently facing has widely affected our social, political, and environmental circumstances. However, to my opinion, the root of the problems has nothing to do with the mismanagement for economic development; the lack of political stability; the unstable socio-cultural structure; or nothing to do with the national and environmental resources which have been seriously destroyed. I view that the actual problem is the lack of sufficient knowledge and perception to cope with the problems. This is apparent in Thailand’s case because formerly our educational system was always tightly associated with economic development. Education was usually employed as a tool for human resource development, to produce potential manpower to support the modern economy development system. This may be essential, to a certain extent. However, formerly we rarely considered education as a means to provide our people with essential knowledge and knowhow to cope with the crisis we are currently facing. While at the moment, amongst the streams of the current development, we have been more concerned with the necessity to prepare our people to be more competent, intellectually, morally and globally, to be able to survive in this era of competitive globalization. And that’s one of the main objectives of our current Education Reform. At present our world is entering the globalization age, and at the same time is globally facing economic crisis. This situation prompts us to consider about the direction of education management in order to perform the right role for educational development. For our national human resource development, apart from the intellectual competency and global awareness, we have to think as well of how to equip our people with moral and ethical awareness to enhance a preventive measurement for social, economic and political corruption in the future. It’s evident that, as a global community, we cannot control the global flow of economic, social, and political transition. This is the major problem that many countries are facing, especially the developing countries and the Third World.
186 186 Lifelo long Learning in Asia and the Pacific Fir irstl tly Second ndly What Thailand is attempting to do through our current Education Reform is to provide Thai citizen with the learning process that enables all of them to have equal access to the continuing lifelong learning. This will be a major strategy to solve various social, economic and political problems. This learning process does not only provide knowledge, but also integrates as a part of real life that instills the virtue to all people in our society. I believe that the crisis we are currently facing is the balanced mechanism of the nature. Whenever we are too extreme on either side, it would swing back and, at the same time, cause a chaos in our global community system. To my opinion, one of our main concerns here is how we can utilize education as a means to cope with such chaos. What I am trying to point out is that, education should be considered as a major means for human intellectual, social, and ethical development in itself, not only as a tool for economic, social, and political development as being formerly regarded. I would like to propose here a conceptual framework for new directions of education that enables to reinforce fully empowerment for “Education for All,” which will bring about peace to the world community. They are: Education should be integrated with learners’ way of life. Apart from the globally and nationally related content in various academic courses, our learners, no matter children or adults, should have an opportunity to learn about things that are responsive to their actual way of life in order that they can apply the knowledge they learn to upgrade their quality of life and to develop their own community. Moreover, all learners should have a learning habit and a searchful mind for knowledge and information from various learning resources around them. Education provided for our people should be a “Meritcontrolled Education” which is a part of oriental wisdom. This school of educational philosophy concentrates on selfpracticing on primary merit. It will equip people with “Meritled Knowledge” and wisdom to know how to restrain
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