INSPIRING

Before I read LASKAR PELANGI, I had read TOTTO CHAN, THE LITTLE GIRL AT THE WINDOW. These two books tell us about teachers, bu Mus and Mr. Kobayashi, who inspired their students to study better and finally find the success. I conclude that one thing that can change education better is inspiring teachers.

INTERNET OR NEWSPAPER?

Newspaper no longer exists. Paper is more and more expensive; it affects the price of newspaper. Since the paper is made of wood, this will also bear new problem – global warming. So, to record information digitally is the answer of the next era.
But although so, the reality is not all people like the digital record. Sitting and reading news from computer screen will cause eyes strain. This is not comfortable for some people. So, of course, in the future they still want the information printed on papers.
If it is said that newspaper is just waiting for the time to disappear, it’s not one hundred percent true.

TEACHER FOR THE JUNGLE CHILDREN

I knew her about five years ago from a shred of a newspaper. The picture told me that the thin girl teaching the jungle children was a tough and soft girl all at once. Now, although I am sure it is not her purpose, she becomes more popular. Certainly you know her.
Saur Marlina Manurung or famously known as Butet Manurung, a girl who was born on February 21st, 1972 in Jakarta is a scholar of anthropology and Indonesian literature of Padjadjaran University. Her intelligence of course can bring her to a good job. But that she is. She built SOKOLA RIMBA in 1999, in the jungle of Jambi, a school for the jungle children. According to her, anyone must get education, even children who live in the jungle.
She teaches the children reading, writing and counting. Her neighbors, except the children, are mosquitoes, frogs and the silent. But, “This is what I want. I like interacting with the nature. Moreover, I don’t look for money. I look for work.”
Go Butet, Go.

PAPUA NEEDS MORE TEACHERS

”Teachers of primary and middle school are concentrated in big city. If the city school has twenty teachers, the village school just has one teacher. This condition causes frailness of primary and middle education in Papua.” This was said by Papua governor, Barnabas Suebu,SH.
Papua needs more teachers. Who wants fly there for this purpose?

FREE FROM PAYMENT

Indonesian Education Minister, Bambang Sudibyo, asked the schools no more collecting school fee from the students. Because next year the government will increase the schools grant so there is no reason for the school to coerce doing that.
That’s the rule. But can it be implemented? To implement the regulation is the hard things. Besides, the control often doesn’t run well. Just wait and see.

MAKE THEM AS MODELS, NOT RIVALS

We often meet somebody who cannot admit someone else’s achievement. Often, they hate them and think that they are menaces for them. They even don’t want to talk to them and they are grateful for the bad luck that hit them.
It is bad. When we make the success person as an enemy, as a rival, we actually limit our strength. We are busy with the hate and forget to upgrade our competence. The best way we can do to them is make them as models, not rivals.

FROG UNDER COCONUT SHELL

Yesterday night, finally, I arrived home after about six hours on the street from Malang, the city where I joined the English learning innovation competition. I prepared for the competition for about two weeks. I thought that I had done my best.
But that’s the reality. I lost the competition. My rivals, two from Malang and one from Tuban, won the competition
Once, I felt I was the best. But the reality is I am the frog under coconut shell.