Thaksin Shinawatra Quotes
It is a pity that some teachers nowadays are incompetent. They do not teach the right thing to students. As a result, those teachers are the ones that are going to destroy democracy.
He was convicted of corruption having transferred millions of dollars of government money to his maid and chauffer (without their knowledge) to hide the money the had taken. He jumped bail and fled the country after his conviction and ran his Pheu Thai Party, from abroad. He then had his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, run in the next election and she was elected Prime Minister and so he continued to control much of the country but could not return last he be jailed. His definition of an incompetent teacher is one who called for his resignation. This is a good example of why there is a need for tenure at universities. He tried to get the university administrators to fire the “incompetent” teachers.
Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand Businessman & Prime Minister of Thailand (Pheu Thai Party), Statement following the call for his resignation by a large group of Chulalongkorn University professors, February 2006
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He was a rabid anti-teacher fanatic. Teachers on most schools sustems are entitled to due process, a reaction aginst the past times when teachers were fired for not supporting the political party in power or other things having nothing to do with education. This due process is interpreted by some to mean that teachers cannot be fired. This is an exaggeration. There is no school district in the United States where a teacher cannot be fired for directly harming children. However, under most school system rules, teachers cannot be fired because their students do not learn the curriculum. This does “screw up chldren’s lives”. Whether or not a student learns involves too many factors other than the teacher to hold teachers responsible. In most school ditricts, the teachers do not choose the curriculum, and are given the textbooks and instructional materials which they must use even if they think better ones are avaialbe. Some children have learning difficulties and others are not motivated at all. Some parents are not supportive of the school, and some children lead such stressful lives that learning is very difficult.
Thaksin Shinawatra is a Thai businessman, politician and visiting professor. He served in the Thai Police from 1973 to 1987, and was the Prime Minister of Thailand from 2001 to 2006. After being ousted from power, he was found guilty of corruption in 2008 and is now living in self-exile.
