Dr Kyaw Thet 1957 lecture excerpt

Part of 1957 CBS Edward Murrow's "See It Now" program on "Burma, Buddhism, and Neutrality"

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[bboykaung]

I am totally suprised that I had never known before about my country' high education system.There were good tutors and good teaching systems in Burma before.If we still have these kinds of education in Burma,why do anyone needs to go abroad.Why do young students need to live separately from their families.I know it is almost impossible to get back these days...however,we are still waiting for the days like in this clip in our country.I am really inspired by this clip.Thanks for uploading it.

[kaunghtut]

That's what we called GOOD EDUCATION!!!!

[Sinyethar]

Thank you. I've welled up with emotion and tears watching this video. Reminds me how much we've lost in such a small amount of time. It breaks my heart our once prosperous and highly educated nation is now a dirty, poverty stricken backwater. Where we once had scholars and intellectuals, we now export a labor force that works in neighbouring countries as servants, waitering staff, and beggars. It makes me so angry at the incompetence of our government and the wasted generations.

[zawthatzin]

thanks bro 

[tianya1382]

who is U KYAW THET can anyone give me more information abt him?

[masaw9]

Thanks for the video. Let's have more videos like this. I agree with many commentators here. However, wherever & whenever we'e been educated, we ourselves are accountable for the level of our education. Relying on teachers only is not enough for one's intellectual development. We must be able to find & exploit available resources such as libraries, the radio or the internet effectively. We must read extensively & intensively.We also need to think not just accepting everything in books blindly.

[leoinemoon2889]

education system is great.... professor is also inspiring and charismatic

[hiddenvirtue]

We, new generations of Myanmar, should try hard to get back the times like those. Nobody can live longer than they should. The time would come for us. We can rebuild our ideal education system for future generation if we prepare ourselves right now. The power to reform is in our hands.

[snowflake8439]

Great, thanks for sharing.

[zrshwe]

Wonderful. Thanks.

[kalaysoe]

what an inspirational video. if only this education has continue, none of us really need to go aboard and study.

i am so proud of the educaton system then yet so sad it has dissolve into current state.

all i can hope for now is.. if only...

[lynnmg]

တုိ႔မ်ားလည္း တခ်ိန္က ဒီလုိပညာေရး ရွိခဲ့ပါတယ္ ... ဒီလုိျပန္ျဖစ္လာဖုိ႔ တုိ႔ေတြဘယ္ေလာက္အခ်ိန္ယူရမလဲ ...