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Article: Bangkok Post, Thailand, Kriengsak Niratpattanasai Column.
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- August 1, 2003
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By Kriengsak Niratpattanasai, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 1--Last week, I facilitated a two-day workshop on continuous learning for senior management of a multinational company. In the opening session, each participant was asked to identify the hero of continuous learning. Many identified their own fathers who had immigrated from China.
They admired these "heroes" for several reasons. They came to Thailand with nothing. They started to work mostly as labourers since they did not have any education and spoke no Thai. Through continuous learning and 15-20 years of hard work, the majority of them became middle-class ...