The Importance of Character
Building at School
Indonesia is a rich country. The
human resources in Indonesia attain in large amount, but what a pity, there are
many corruption cases happened. From this thing we know that Indonesia needs
high qualified from human resources. To fulfill those things, it needs a real
action, one of the ways is through education. As all know that education is
important part in nation progress, but this time the orientation of education
is like a shadow. Many new forming systems happened to make orientation of
education clear. Now, one of the new forming systems that often to talk is
‘Character Building’. Character building is an investment system of character
values to school family that include of knowledge consciousness and action to
commit these values, towards the God, our self, peers, environments, also the
nation that make perfect human (Prasetya, A & Revasinta, E.(2011)). The
character building at school is important for this time, but do we know why
character building at school is important? There are three reasons that become a
background from the importance of character building at school, such as the
ineffective of character education at home, the unsuccessful of educational
system in Indonesia and the relation with purpose of education in Indonesia.
Character education in basic rule is
not only become the task of the school, but also the task of parents at home,
family and society, but in fact this is separated. Character education in
family environment does not give good contribution in character building of
children. Many parents do not think that character education is important for
their children. They prefer spending a lot of time for working and getting much
money. This thing has relation with parent’s orientation towards education.
They just emphasize the academic area and make a good assessment just from hard
skill and intellectual intelligence. They have an opinion that there is no
problem if their children have good mark only in academic result and it is good
according to parents opinion. This perception actually make the task of family
to build the children character ineffective. They do not understand the
importance of character building for their children, but actually the character
education has important part in decision of success for their children.
Character investment in family environment has a big contribution. More than 12
hours children spend their time together with family, but this big part is not
used effectively by the parents. Parents also provide the children with
everything that their children want, not the children need to be successful in
future.
Character building at school start
to develop is not only because of ineffective education in family environment
but also from the unsuccessful education system. The educational systems that
have ever been used in Indonesia are not successful in building of children
character. Many people said that education system in Indonesia has failed to
build the character of children. Many people who graduate from school have good
brain but they do not have good intelligence and their behavior is not good
also. This thing happened because the purpose is not correct. The education
systems used just have orientation in quality of academic and emphasize in
intellectual intelligence. As a consequence the children cannot follow the
system in school and indirectly they think that they are not smart enough.
Moreover the use of rank system causes the decreasing self-esteem of children.
This system of surely has negative influence toward the character developing of
children, because from the beginning their confidence has been killed. It can
make a situation where the children will get stress that continuously because they
are not confident. These conditions usually push the children to show negative
action in adolescent age. Because of that the character building need to be
included in education system at school. Character building is the great goal
from the right education.
Moreover, there is a basic reason of
character building at school if we look at the relation with Indonesia
education purpose itself. Character building would carry a forming of
generation that is not only great in intellectual intelligence (IQ) but also in
emotional intelligence (EQ). It is in line with UU No.20 Tahun 2003 pasal 3
about National Education System which states that civilization of the nation’s
dignity in the context of the developing nation to be a person who is noble,
religious to God the Almighty one, good attitude, and creative, health in
physic, intellectual, emotional, social and cultural. They also should be
citizens who are democratic and responsible. So the character building at
school support the formed of generation that are not only great in intellectual
intelligence (IQ) but also in emotional intelligence (EQ) and we can get the
main idea that successful person not only depend on intellectual intelligence
but also the emotional intelligence. This is also supported by Daniel Goleman
who mention “success person in community following the rule of 80 / 20. This
rule has meaning that in fact 80 % successful are influenced by emotional
intelligence (EQ), and only 20% of successes are influenced by intellectual
intelligence (IQ)”.
It is clear that character building
at school is important. The importance is caused by the reason behind this
system. The reason is about the ineffective character education at home, so it makes
character building at school have an important part. Unsuccessful education
systems that have ever been used in Indonesia is because the incorrect
orientation of education from this system. The relation of education purpose in
Indonesia that mention the importance of emotional intelligence and
intellectual intelligence in the context to produce good person with good
character. After we all understand about the reason, it is better if we start
to repair ourselves and our generation through the character building at school
to make a nation with good character, good attitude, physical health, emotional
intelligence and intellectual quality, social relationship, moral because we
have known the reason. We must understand that ‘intelligence plus character is
the goal of true education’ (Luther King, M).
References:
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Kompasiana.(2011, Desember 8). Konsep
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Wow..,
BalasHapusgood essay mba febri..,
and also nice picture :D
I hope you can keep writing on your blog,because your writings is good :D
Thank you derry
HapusBut, I still confused if I must wrute an essay.
Do you have tips to make an essay with easy way?
Indonesia needs a lot of people who has character, doesn't it?? :)
BalasHapusYes gebby, thats right.
HapusHow do you think about character building in our education world?