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Mon community in Sangkhlaburi promote education for students
Mon 24 Jul 2006,
IMNA
Mon residents and organizations in Sangkhlaburi, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand held a meeting to promote Mon education among students by the Mon Baddish culture.
The meeting was to explain to the parents of students about the teaching of the Mon language and was organized by Preserve Local Culture Group (PLCG) in Sangkhlaburi.
The people who attended the meeting heard recitations by a monk on the five precepts of Buddhism to interact and discuss among each other before opening the cerebration.
“Literature is the essence of a nation and the essence of a nation mainly is in literature. If the literature goes, the nation also vanishes” said Phara Jorndimar, a senior monk in Phara Uttama’ Wat Vi-Vay-Karam temple.
Phara Ni, the chairman of the meeting, said “Teaching Mon language also depends absolutely on the parents of students. Even though the teachers are experts in teaching, they can’t teach without students. The number of students absorbed for teaching will depend on their parents.”
According to a Thai teacher from Sangkhlaburi, they would teach not only Mon language but also Mon culture and dancing. They would like to inculcate in them both literature and culture during their studies in high school and universities.
More than 50 people attended the meeting and donated money and school supplies to PLCG.
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