Education and Moral Value

The Function of Education As human being, people try to explore the world and make it develop to increase the life’s standard. Throughout the thousand and thousand years of discovering, creating, and contributing the world, people have collected the huge treasure of knowledge. The following generations inherit this treasure and build up it. Education is the process that we inherit the knowledge. However, what we use this heritage for? More specifically, what is the function of education? In Think on These Things, Jiddu Kristnamurti has considered about the function of education, and he said “is it the function of education to help us understand the whole process of life, or is it merely to prepare us for a vocation, for the best job we can get?” Following the though of Jiddu Kristnamurti, the main function of education is development of society and individual. We try to understand how the education play its function as development and whether the function of education can do its job perfectly in our system now. When we do the comparison between the non-developed country and the developed country, we can see the big difference in education between these two groups. Education is the main resource to contribute the economy, politic of one country. If we go to the individual person, education is the material to build the character, personality, the knowledge, and also the position in community. Education is the key point to make the development for the society and individual. In the individual, education plays the role of development in three main ways: development of knowledge, development of moral behavior and development of the social position. In the role as development of knowledge, education is the heritage of knowledge that is transferred generation to generation, so every individual person explores this heritage to increase the knowledge. In generally, knowledge is the facts, information, or skill that we discover or learn through the

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