What is education? Education is a process to change us
into something better. Ever since the first time humans populated the earth, we
keep changing, developing ourselves and the world to be even better than
before. Humans always discover new things and from there we learn something
new, whether it is bad and we should avoid it or it is something good and we
should learn more about it. Education has been given to us since we were
little, wherein a child’s brain is like a sponge that will absorb the liquid
that touches it. Therefore, our generation will be ready to lead human
population in getting better.
In my opinion, education is the most important. Because without
education we wouldn’t get a chance to develop ourselves, specifically our
character. The key to the best generation is not only academical and
theoritical knowledge, but also a wise and dependable character. Our generation
has quite a lack on that, as far as I know, because we are depending to much on
theories. On math, biology, physics, etc. we are too busy to improve our
knowledge on science and technology, because ever since modern technology starts
spreading, we realize that it brings so much benefit to our lives. But, in the
progress, we are forgetting that knowledge is power, but character is more. We couldn’t
make a good character theoritically. So, as for me, the ideal type of education
is the education that teaches more about character developing. The education
that teaches us about the condition of the world, and changes our mindset to be
more openminded, critical, and educated. That way, I am sure that we will be
able to reduce the number of wars going on in this world.
Unfortunately, most of the country in this world hasn’t
realize yet about how important character building is. Schools are still using
the system wherein the students have to take classes as they have been given,
whether they like it or not. I think, that is the worst form of education. Students
have a lot of different abilities. We can’t force a student who likes art to do
a trigonometri equation. We can’t force
a student who likes math to draw a realistic potrait of theirselves. This kind
of education will only reduce the student’s spirit to improve their abilities. As the result, their character will turn to a negative way and we will have the worst generation to lead the population.
I, myself, as a student, am hoping that the current education system will be changed. Especially in Indonesia. This beautiful country has so much potential and yet we still don't know how to use it in the lack of our character.
