Education is an activity that knows no age. We've heard a sentence; learning is
to start from the womb to the tomb in. The function of education is to raise
the dignity of man.
Humans are required to constantly innovate to lead a better life, education should also be required to create and innovate. Education at present experiencing challenges of the times, it was because of the dynamics of human life is always changing, so the challenges and gaps faced by education are constantly evolving and increasingly complex.
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, giving the four pillars of education, namely;
Learning to learn
Every child should know the learning resources around them; able to access the
learning resources; and is able to use the technology, especially information
technology (computer and internet) in finding and accessing knowledge. Therefore,
in addition to improving their ability to concentrate, reading, writing,
listening, memorization, association, also need to learn how to do research and
to operate the computer. It became a major supporter in improving learning
outcomes. With these skills, the person is able to have the information and
knowledge that is needed quickly and accurately in the middle-paced world of
competitive and rapidly changing.
Learning to do
It is applying knowledge to work, either in the context of industry and economy
in the context of non-industry such as: service, social, informal sector, art,
knowledge, and self-employment. Simply put, this is a sequence of learning to
learn. But in the complex, learning to do is a review to promote human
readiness to enter the workforce with the skills and competencies that support
high. Therefore, early planning is necessary to learn the skills and
competencies appropriate to their talents, interests, and personal intelligence
in line with labor market needs and demands of life in general.
Learning to be
Learning to be a whole human being who has a body and soul, this is done
through a long process of education. Every child is born as a whole person and
unique, their uniqueness reflected or visible from the difference talents,
interests, potential and other types of intellectual capital. The task of
education is to find talents, interests and potential of children from
childhood and develop it so that children are able to apply their full
potential. Everyone must learn to be himself, so he has autonomy, social
sensitivity, responsible, and the ability to choose and make decisions for her
life.
Learning to live together
Learning to live together or learn to live with others. This is due to humans
as social beings who must always get along and work with different characters
and different cultural backgrounds. Is the fact that people work and learn in a
particular social environment. Environment in which people learn and work
consist of a wide variety of social backgrounds, culture, politics, and
history.
The four pillars of education above implies the importance of life skills (life
skills) the skills that every moment able to learn in accordance with the
demands of the need to acquire and produce knowledge (how to learn); skills to
work (how to do), skills for to be itself (how to be); and life skills together
(how to live together)
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