Education System
Well mates, meet me again on my blog. This time, I’m
gonna discuss about “Education System”. We know that as the time goes by, the
world have changed a lot. Present day is completely different than 100 years a
go. Many things have changed a lot, so does the education system too. In the
present day, there are many things that have to be solved, because the problem
in humans live is more complicated, more many problems in live. And as the time
does, technology is developing rapidly to. So humans are have to be more
smarter too as the time does. So the perks of “ being smarter human” are we
could solve our complicated problem in live at present day, and we could keep
up the developing technologies. To reach that “perks of being smarter human”,
we should educating ourself with the appropriate materials that suitable for
present day. One way to educating ourself is by following the Education System
that provides by School. Learning materials that provides by school is always
aimed to prepare the students for their future, to keep up with the abreast of
the time. So in the future, the students could be a successful person because
the school have trained him/her to be ready for his/her future itself.
So, because we live in Indonesia, I’m gonna put my opinion first on Indonesia’s educational system. In Indonesia, children are have to start school at the age of 4 or more. At the age of 4, the children are starting school at kindergarten, or at the age of 3, children starting school at playgroup. I think that at the age of 3 or 4, children are have to playing with their friends with the same age , playing with their mother and father, playing with their siblings, they should know theirself and their family first. They have to know the neighbourhood their live. Essentially, they have to recognize their family and friends by playing and recognize their neighbourhood by playing around there. They have to do that kind of stuff, not have to learning early mathematics at kindergarten, not have to wakeup early to go to school and learning things. Although they only learn some basics education, playing some educational games with their friends, I think at the age of 3 or 4, they should spending their time with their family and know theirself first. And after kindergarten, the children have to entered primary school. The problem here that all of the students are have to learn many lesson and have to mastered all of the matters. So the students are forced to mastered many lesson at the same time, but the teacher are only mastered only 1 kind of lesson. I think its kindda unfair to let the students mastered many lesson at the same time. By using this method. Student’s brain capacity is filled by a lot of matters that is not necessarily will used at their future. It’s kindda just wasting their memory, I think. I think, at the elementary school, students are have to learn some basics matters that supports them for further study, not all of the matters that have to be learned at the junior high school. In Indonesia, elementary school students are have to mastered a lot of matters that should be learned at junior high school. Indonesian junior high school education system is same as the elementary school, but the school subjects is more than elementary school. The junior high school students are have to mastered 13 + school subjects at the same time, while the matter that they should mastered is lil bit not important and not useful in their future. After junior high school, students are have to continued their study to senior high school. Although at the senior high school there is a “penjurusan” to science class and social class, the subject that they have to mastered is to many. The matters of the subjects is so many plus the matters is so complicated. High school students are forced to mastered that at the same time. Plus there is a new curriculum called “ kurikulum nasional” or “ kurikulum 2013” applied at the senior highschool. As a student of a senior high school, I feel that the new curriculum is included a lot of unimportant methods of educational system. This system is only aggravate the students, only adding burden to the students. I think that the “ penjurusan” system in Indonesia is not perfect. I think that “penjurusan” system should aim the students according the courses that will be taken by the students for collage. So the students can be more focused on their future. That’s my opinion. So I think Indonesia’s educational system is not already appropriate for us if we want to “being smarter human” at this time. I think we can follow the number 1 country with the best educational system, Finland. In Finland, there are more fewer school, and all of the school is managed by the government. So there is no competition between schools there because all of the school is same there. Finland does not have a national exam at each level of education . There is only the National Matriculation Examination taken at the high school level that is ' voluntary ' . Compulsory education in Finland itself is between the ages of 7-16 years .Elementary school in 6 years and 3 years of junior high school . After graduating from junior high school , students have the option may directly enter the workforce or attend school or professional preparation gymnasium ( high school level ) . These high school graduates will be able further to a polytechnic or university . In essence , there is no UN elementary and secondary schools . these national exams are pressing the students menthals. Schools in Finland is not bound by a uniform curriculum . Schools do not have to apply the same curriculum with the same method on the same schedule . The Ministry of Education launched the " Basic Curriculum " flexible , a kind of general guidance about what subjects should be taught and the objectives to be achieved at each grade level . Basic curriculum is valid as a basis for any school curriculum as they prepare themselves , they can create a particular emphasis on pedagogy , specific value. And high school students in Finland is paid by the government. So that’s my opinion about “educational system”. Thanks for spending ur time !
