Dear audience. Today I want to talk about The need for character education in school to create students who have a good personality.
Recently, when we watch news on television, listen to news at radio station, and read news in newspaper, we often now that there are many bad characters covered. We know bad characters showed such as bribery, corruption, fighting, smoking, consuming narcotics and alcohol and so on. Do you know why those bad characters happened?
I personally think that one of the answers is that character building in education is not taught or implemented by teachers to all students in their schools. As we all know that it is a common in Indonesia that our education only stresses the knowledge aspects. So that student's moral and characters are ignored. So, to prevent bad characters of our students, all level schools must educate students not only knowledge and skills but also good character.
Actually, ministry of education has classified that there are 9 pillars of character that should be implemented. They are First, the character of loving God and all His creation; second, independence and responsibility; Third, honesty / trust, diplomatically; Fourth, respect and courtesy; fifth, generous, like mutual help and mutual assistance / cooperation; sixth, confident and hardworking; seventh, leadership and justice; eighth, kind and humble, and; ninth, the character of tolerance, peace, and unity.
I do believe If those nine pillars are implemented at all level schools, our nation, Indonesia will be great nation with great people. On this occasion, I deliver three main arguments about character education which must be given in all level school in Indonesia.
First, character education is the real guarantee of Indonesia nation to become a great nation. Second, character education makes Indonesian are able to compete with those overseas people especially in the globalization era Third, character education helps our nation to be a great nation with great citizen.
As my speech closing, I recommend to all level schools in Indonesia to implement character building at their school. Good character building is a must. Do you know why? Yes, we know. We really know that our nation is sick now. To cure it, let's build our young generation characters into good characters by implementing 9 pillars of character mentioned before.
