We often hear about this ASEAN 2015 change now and all these initiatives being hastily conceived in a belated attempt to do too little too late. One of the things I notice is the ready acceptance of the student group to be happy in mediocrity or blandly average and unremarkable regarding results/achievement with everyone else in the same section. Perhaps 10% of a class of 80 have genuine aspirations that motivate them enough in the intrinsic way to seriously undertake proactive learning. A course is something to just simple come out the end of with a bit of paper even you learn sweet FA along the way.
Then we have rampant plagiarism (there's almost no point giving out homework) and unwillingness to even try, with their personal appearance or Facebook account status taking priority over all else. There seems to be little genuine thirst for knowledge and an over-aching desire to remain in obscurity of a medium nature and fearing the risk of making a mistake but learning from it.
I don't claim to be working anywhere special, just an average university in an average Thai city. I'm sure this doesn't apply to all as generalisations are not often a good idea (and I'm not really making one) but there is often some truth to be found somewhere in them, rather like cliches.
Reminds my of the safety in numbers survival ploy. I guess this whole thing is how incompetence is perpetuated into the system again and again. I often wonder what they will do when mum and dad are gone and they actually have to sort-it-out as many of them seem hopelessly prepared.
Oh well, just some thoughts.
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