Honesty and Education

            In connection with education, honesty does not connect itself to the education, but if we connect it with the basic of education, of course it has. Honesty has become more familiar with educational life since honesty have been needed to generate good generation both in attitude and intelligency. In connection to the attitude, honesty is needed to form good behavior towards environment and human beings. This honesty should be emerged since they start becoming a learner. Indeed, honesty does not connect to education directly, but just like an expert says “education without religion is lame, religion without education is blind. In this proverb clearly says that religion that refers to honesty and merits is strongly connected.

            Lately, in our beloved country, INDONESIA, we always hear about fraudulence when the students having an exam. They play with this as if they played in a gambling, the worse one occurs when the teachers involve themselves to do this. As we know that since this country was independent and free from colonialism, we establish our educational system more score-oriented, on the other word,  we do rely on the score, we make the score as the main purpose in education. Unfortunately, this situation is getting worse when the government prevails a standarized score to determine whether the students pass or fail to graduate from their school. Of course, many students learn as hard as they can, but as we know not all of the students can reach and seize the standard that prevailed by the government, the only way they will do is cheating. This way is considered as the best one when they have no choice in facing terrible examination. They are right in one side, because they just want to pass the exam and get graduation certificate.

            This cheating should be decreased or even deleted from our educational system. Because this fraudulence will influence their future work, thay will be accustomed to the bad way to get something. They will just think about themselves, they never care to the others. This is the importance of being honest in education.

            The question eill emerge in our brain “ what should a good teacher do to overcome this problem ?”. Well, as we know that a good teacher will always guide students to be good including avoid the students become dishonest.  It will be very difficult to plant the understanding of being honest in the students themselves, but as long as we are as the teacher we can do it. First, build the students’ self-image, so that they can recognize themselves about who they are. What their majority is and recognize the best learning technique that is appropriate for them. Second, plant self-confidence in them so that they can believe in themselves. The third one is to give them understanding that score is not everything.

            To summarize, the roles of good teacher to generate the better generation in education will be very needed. Honesty becomes the most important thing in education when honesty is on decreasing.

                                                                                   

Posted by : firmansyah