In my opinion education is a process of learning either
formal, non-formal, or informal. Formal education is what we have at school,
while non-formal education is a process of learning that we’ve got from another
institution besides school, like a course that we take, and informal education
is a process of learning that we’ve got from our environment, like family,
friends, or our other inner circle.
As we know
now, people usually assume that education is only a lesson that we’ve got from
school, reading books, class with teacher. That’s a wrong statement. In fact,
when we talk to everybody, it’s a part of education or when we do something
with the others, it’s a kind of education too.
For a better
future, we should change our perception on education, because education isn’t
only about the formal one. Then, we should increase the moral education, not only
about science . We can’t just create a lot of science experts , but we should create
people who have abilities to read the
situation and make strategic decision. So,
when we grow up, we can have logic argument when we argue with the others.
Besides that,
we also have to develop the human resources factor – teacher. Because, at
school, teacher is our role model and as human, we usually follow our role models. The
better teacher we have, the better role model we have, the better people we
will be. And besides about role models, teacher is also a media who will
transfer his or her knowledge to us, their student. So, they should have an
ability to do that. They should be humble, kind, and patient. Because, there’s
no instant way to study, we should follow the process.
The other
factor that can make the education better in the future is an action from the
government to improve the formal education in their countries. In Indonesia,
actually the government help their residents to get a chance to have a formal
education for 12 years! It’s called BOS. It’s the program where the government
help people who have an economic problem, so they can still get a formal
education. Unfortunately, BOS isn’t distributed well. So, there’s still a lot
of students, especially from the isolated areas that located far away from the
city haven’t felt the impact of BOS. So, the government role is so important to
solve this issue.
In my opinion, the last one is we
have to create the education system that allow us to focus in one speciality. It’s good to master a
lot of fields(bidang), but it’ll be better if a person can be an expert in one
particular field (bidang) that he or she likes . Because, that’s what the
advanced countries do. I think, the developed countries should adopt it to
their education system.
