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Jakarta (Media Indonesia: 28/08/06)High grade is not the only one that determines the success of a student. Creativity, indeed, is the most important issue."There is a wide misperception in Indonesia, where students are taught to get the highest grade possible. Consequently, students are lacking of creativity. They are only focusing on memorizing," said education expert Arief Rahman while addressing Teacher Class Meeting held in Jakarta over the week-end. This approach, said Arief, makes students smart but it fails to help them develop their interest and talents. And a sole emphasize on students’ intellectuality, like what is going on currently, could be dangerous.The term 'capacity’ in education should be redefined. Students’ capacity should include spiritual, emotional, social and physical aspects. "No wonder that in this era, there are many clever people, but there is a lot of corruption as well. This is because the intellectual aspect is not balanced by spiritual, emotional, social, and physical aspects,” he said in the gathering held by Pro Visi Education and Sampoerna Foundation.
The two institutions will soon hold Indonesian Teachers’ Conference with the theme 'Towards Quality Education.” The conference, where some 700 teachers from across the Indonesian participate, will help to find effective ways for students to learn. “Our community still associates talents with students’ capacity to learn what they have been taught in schools. Smart students are those who get high grades, especially in natural sciences,” said Arief. Therefore, Arief added, schools which are good in intellectuality do not deserve to be called top-performing schools. “Schools which deserve this title are those capable of identifying and developing students’ talents,” Arief asserted. He pointed out at, State Senior High School SMU 8 Jakarta which is now called “top-performing school”, might not be producing top-performing students. “It is easy for their students to get high grades. The admission fee reaches 8.7 million. Of course the students could afford to learn by themselves, by taking extra courses, for instance," he said. Therefore, schools have to improve themselves by initiating programs that could serve students’ diverse potentials.Unfortunately, what happening now, most teachers are drilling students will exercises to help students chasing high grades. |
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