By Rapidah Fitri   

         

Good Teacher Is First Key to Advancement a Country

The important day that I always remember during my life is when my teacher “Annie Sulivan” came to me. I am full by amazing fell when I think “how very different two life that she made. (Hellen Keller)

Education is looked as an important process to be better. Educations has high quality will get future generations that also have high quality.

As we know South Korea around 1960 still be amend country, but now South Korea has been industry country in this global. This is impossible for South Korea to be like this without hard work from education sector. It is a proof Education is a key to advancement a country. From this thing, we know that teacher is first key to advancement a country. So, how about Indonesia? Have we got it? A big fact from World Bank (Teacher employment and deployment in Indonesia, 2007) said that Indonesia is shortage teacher as many 34%, so does the quality. So, how can we make Indonesia go forward?.

There is a big fact about a country has leaved Indonesia so far. What is the country? Yeah that right it is “Japan”. When Japan in the dark without a light even a candle, they just could sleep without doing anything but when a revolution came to them, it made Japan woke up from their slept. At the time Indonesia stayed in front of Japan and they were walking to go forward but suddenly Japan has stayed in front of Indonesia, what happened? Yeah, when Indonesia just walked Japan woke up and they run and run until stay in front of Indonesia. At the time all of Samurai in Japan saved their poniards, they thought that they wouldn’t be winner if they just fight by poniards. They open their mind and look at the world and finally they were ready to fight by learn in education. They just think they must still learn and learn more if they want to be winner. They go to America, France and German to learn and they back to their hometown “Japan” and become great teachers. Finally those great teachers teach and guide all children in Japan to be great generation like now. They believe in their selves they will be better if their education is better too and they really believe “good teacher is first key to advancement a country”.

Wauuu guys, it is a fact we can know about Japan, so, what are you thinking right know? Do you think that Indonesia spends their lucky? Yeah of course it is right, but what could we do at the time. At the time we don’t think about education because we are busy to get wealth. And now, just look at yourself. Have you got it? Whatever you think but I believe you think good teacher is first key to advancement Indonesia. Right?

But, just look at Indonesia now. Indonesia just has good teacher around 20%. In West Borneo there is a University, there, many people learn about education and they will become teacher. I will not write the name of the university but I believe if you live in Pontianak you will know it.

I don’t know you will believe in me or no, but it is a fact. Have you looked some people study in education program and they smoke? Hemm, may be you have. So, what do you think? Will you think they will be good teachers? Of course not, right? Why? If you ask me I will answer “because they haven’t a good conviction to be a great teacher”. They just think want to be ordinary teacher and they think be a teacher just a profession for them. So, how can if you want to be great teacher you are a smoker and think like that? If we be a teacher like that, we will never make Advancement in our country. And I ever hear a teacher said like this “Actually I don’t know how to teach well, so, here I just can share my knowledge with you”. I think that is not good for us, if we are students we will feel mad at the teacher. How come a teacher says like that? It means that teacher is not care about students. Of course it gives us a proof that “Smart people can’t be a good teacher yet but a teacher that can make the student understand, it means the good teacher”.

I’m sorry if I say like that but it is the fact. I think not just me think like that. Please you open and read my friends’ article “Rizki fatmasari and Ulfiatul Mustika”. They also explain like me. When student get bored to learn or when Japan get their successful, they explain about “what must teachers do?”

Just try to find the fact. If you know it, you will not be able say “good teacher is first key to advancement Indonesia”. But the fact is still “good teacher is first key to advancement Indonesia”. If we can get it we will understand about The Miracle of Learning”.

 Oke guys, those are my story today, in the next article I will explain how to be great students and teaher. Please still read my articles. See you Bye-bye.

My sources:

1.     The power of lerning (book)

2.    Gurunya Manusia (book by Munif Catib)

3.    The short story about Hellen Keler (Book)

4.    Fact of a University in Pontianak(my experience)

5.    Keajaiban Belajar(book by Yunsirno)