Dear Doctor ป. 

I am with you on your observation of a belief that "Thai students never ever be able to know what they should learn...". 

Beliefs and cultural backgrounds are important factors in education. Some parents are liberal and allow their children to follow their wish. Institutions are much less liberal and run to more restricted expectation both academically and financially. Furthermore, processes in education take time to produce results (15 years for preschool-to-high school, another 4 years for a batchelor degree, 1-4 years for a higher degree, leaving only some 35 years to work and achieve excellence in mostly difficult conditions: like not enough funding, not enough 'trust' and 'support', language proficiency, cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary collaboration, ...). The rate of progress in education is thus slow.

One pathway in education is through religious institions. There are reasons that some people will object to learning in one religion or another. The facts are that religious teaching is thousands of years in operation. Many teaching and learning techniques are developed and fine tuned to levels of excelence. Some techniques are common across religions (for examples 'uposath'/group prayer/'mass'; special events for remembrance/celebration; recite/interpretation discussion, ...).

Is 'free education' (in religious sense and political sense) suitable to transport our children and our society into the 21st century and beyond? Do we have a 'reasonable' way to make prediction? And in case of many possible ways, to assess possible results and compare them? Would our answers be: "it's depends on our beliefs and culture."?

There are more to think about when we try to think for our country. It may be much easier to think for just 'our chidren' ;-)