History of private education in Thailand the involvement of the private sector in education goes back to
the times when formal education, in the modern sense of the term, was nonexistent. Education was chiefly
provided by monastic schools belonging to Buddhist temples, where boys were taught by monks. The
boys were taught Thai, Pali and other basic skills. King Ramkhamhaeng, the third monarch of Sukhothai,
the first capital of Thailand, created the Thai alphabets in 1283.