Buddhism and Thai Education

Abstract

Thai society today are facing problems in morality, ethics and desirable values, which are extremely important factors for living in a society together to bring peace and tranquility but from the condition of Thai economy and society facing change both from globalization. The advancement of technology, especially in communication causing the Thai society to not stand still change all the time, resulting in the values of the people in society to change in a more materialistic way Thai people have competitive values, changing from simple social conditions with understanding, sympathy, generosity, becoming a society with unwelcome behavior desire to compete for good and to be unkind and result in moral and ethical deterioration. As a result, it is a social problem, including poverty family problems difference of thought political problems, economic problems, crime, as they appear in the media until it may make Thai people, especially Buddhists, keep away from the temple, forget about the culture, traditions and way of life that have long been associated with temples and Buddhism. A variety of knowledge and intellects born from temples or people who have been ordained in temples. It can be said that the Thai people and the temple are so bound together that it is difficult to separate them. Like the words "Boworn", "houses, temples, schools", learning, culture and traditions from birth to death. All of them are related to each other until they become like the same thing or something that is inevitably close to Thai life.