Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Education to Build a Better Future for All



            Education is the base of our future ahead. In Indonesia, we have to study for at least 12 years, 6 years for elementary school, 3 years for middle school, and 3 years for high school. We can’t go to university or working if we don’t have three graduation sertificates. That means that in Indonesia you have to be educated enough to work. Because actually, educated people is the future of the country. They’re the one who lead the country to the better future.

            But I think there are some flaws in our educational system. In Indonesia, we have to learn all subjects. If we are not good on some of it, well, we have to. This mindset shut down the brain’s ability to thrive. Some people are good in some field, let them grow on that field. That way, we would have those experts we need. Of course, we have to teach them the basic of some important subjects. But if we need an experts to build Indonesia to a better future, we have to let them grow at the field they like, the field they’re good at, so that they can enjoy what they learn and be the best on that field.

            If you want to get a good job with high salary, you have to be a graduate of a good university too. If you want to get into a good university, you have to have a good score in most of the subjects. This mindset teach us to get a good score, not understanding the subject. Some people got into a good university even though they actually didn’t know what they know. That’s what usually happened. They lean on good grades that we don’t know if it’s a clean score or not. We have to change this. We have to understand. We must understand. That way we can get a good score and be the ‘quality seeds’ who build Indonesia to a better future.

Now, time. We study at school for about 8 hours or so. And then we have a course after school for 3 hours. At home, we study again for about 2 hours. So basically we study for 13 hours a day. Thirteen hours. I just realized that we spent half of our day and another half to sleep, eat, and rest. Or maybe some of us spend the ‘rest’ time on the road or maybe another course? I don’t know. Its just tiring. Me, as a student, I feel tired. 13 hours of study, not to mention the tasks, the daily tests, and others. Its hard. But maybe they’re trying to make us a good generation. The next generation who can fix this country. But still, we need the time to actually rest and having fun. Maybe we can just take those subjects we’re good at, back to paragraph 2. That way, we can take our education seriously because we like it and actually enjoy it.

 Another things we have to learn are responsibility, leadership, independence, honesty, how to work with people, etc. That was some aspects that we must have to build this country to a better future. We are the next generation. We are the one who directly build this country. So we have to study well and actually understand what we learn so that we can practice it in the real situation.

That was some thing I want to share about the education system in Indonesia and what we need to do to help build Indonesia to a better future. I hope this opinion of mine can be considered because this is what I think we have to do if we want to build Indonesia to a better future. I’m Indonesian. I want the best for my country. So students, study well.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Mobile Phones Have Made Life Worse, Not Better


            In this era, everybody have mobile phones or handphone. I’m sure you have at least one too. It seems that mobile phone has become a need in our life. It give us so many advantages but surely, it have some disadvantages too. But do you think that handphone have made life worse? For me, I don’t think so.

            There may be some disadvantages from mobile phones. Sometimes people are too serious with their phone that they don’t care with their surrounding anymore. And there are so many bad people who use mobile phone as their arena to do bad things like tricking people, robbing, kidnapping, or maybe for killing too.

            But mobile phones have so many advantages too. With mobile phone, we don’t have to deliver a message by travelling or by post anymore. There are phone calls, messages, and now there are social media for messaging as well such as LINE, Kakao Talk, WhatsApp, and much more. Long time ago, people went to post office to send a message or a letter. And it took a few days or almost a week for the message to be delivered. What would happened if someone must deliver an important message but the message would only arrived a few days later? Well I say it would be too late. Before post office existed, people should deliver it by themselves. They had to sail far away only to deliver a message. It took time and energy. But now, we can send a message in seconds. Its so fast yet helpful.

            People nowadays cant get too far without internet. Internet have so many uses for us. You need to know something? Go to Wikipedia. You’re looking for something? Go to Google. You want to send a message to your friend who live far away? You can use Yahoo or Google Mail. Internet have so many uses and we can go to the internet easily with only a mobile phones. Now, your mobile phones can access the internet easily. So you don’t have to bring your PC everywhere to go to the internet, just use the mobile phone. You can connect it to wifi and it also can be a wifi for other gadget. It also have Bluetooth so you can send things easily. Mobile phone is so small, so light, and its not taking too much place. You can place it in your bag or in your pocket and it won’t burden you.

            And if you’re bored? Mobile phone have so many interesting games for you to play. You just have to download it and you’ll be free from boredom. Or you can listen to music. Or you can watch a video. You like reading? There’s something called e-books and you can read it in your mobile phones. Mobile phones also have a camera. On the newest handphone, they usually have 2 cameras, back camera and front camera. You can take a picture or a selfie and you don’t have to bring an SLR or pocket camera! It have so many fitures in it that can help you in almost everything.

            That was some advantages from mobile phones. It was only a few of it. We can talk about this for a loooooong long time if you want to know all the advantages of mobile phones. So, you still want to say that mobile phones have made life worse? Its so helpful, of course it makes life better!