Teaching

When thinking about teaching in MSPT, one should cease thinking in conventional, that is to say Western, terms. They are taught agriculture, they are taken on trips around the village to acquaint themselves with nature and useable material found therein, such as plants used for dying textiles, and are encouraged to tend to their own vegetable garden, the products of which are sold to finance their lunch meal. In the competitive times that ASEAN comes into formation, children are required to meet national and international educational standards. Thus, they have to take English at school and exercise their language learning skills. Both the teachers and the students are eager to learn English and communicate with us, the foreigners… the ‘farang’.