With regard to the learning society, as I mentioned earlier, optimistically, people from all walks of life should be able to have equal access to edu… - Sukavich Rangsitpol

and should be entitled to have access to education according to their competency and needs.

The provision of education has to be congruent with the pace of the changing world. This era - the era of globalization where all sources of information can be accessed within a few seconds through Internet and World-Wide-Web linkages, we inevitably have to take a further step beyond literacy level.

The speedily changing world and the growth in business and industrial enterprises have led to greater demand of semi-skilled manpower, who need a higher level of education in order to perform their tasks at the adequate level.To keep up with the speedy change, the educational system can no longer take a passive role.

In a paper presented at the Second UNESCO-ACEID International Conference in 1996 entitled New aspirations for education in Thailand. Towards educational excellence by the year 2007,His Excellency Mr. Sukavich Rangsitpol Minister of Education,Thailand (1995 -1997)laid out his plans for education in Thailand..<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cogan |first1=John |title= Citizenship for the 21 st Century/Sukavich Rangsitpol at Re-Engineering on Education