Thursday, 9. October 2008, 09:19:59
english, tugas, review, artikel
Name:Anugraha Putra Pratama
Student Number:0806 4521 16
Faculty & Class:MIPA/B.404,Parallel 08
LEARNING HARD WAY
Authors: Maggie Tiojakin
I have chosen this article because it is a good article that explain us about bad sector in education programme in Indonesia. Our country still cannot able to develop it well. Getting a good education is still difficult for who majored in economics. I hope, the government can solve the problem as soon as possible. I don’t want any children had dropped out from schooling anymore.
This article explain us about bad sector in Indonesian education programme. In fact, there are about 4 million Indonesians between ages of 10 and 44 who are illiterated, placing the country 95th among 175 countries surveyed in 2005 by UNESCO. And of the 78 million people up to 18 years of age, 26 million have either dropped out of school, been expelled or have never seen the inside of a classroom, according to 2006 data from the National Education Ministry.
And according to the Asian-South Pacific Bureauof Adult Education and the Global Campaign for Education, Indonesia finished 10th out of 14 countries in the Asia Pacific evaluated for their educational system. Scorewise, it achieved 42 out of 100-or big, fat F. Sri Lanka, a country that has endured a devastating three decades o0f civil war and which visiting Indonesians are quick to point out doesn’t boast the big-building development of their homeland, still beats Indonesia on the education front with aB (Republika daily,2005).
In this article, the writer want to tell for all of us to know that our government policy program in education still cannot help children getting a good education. It seems so hard because a good jobs need a good education. And of course, with a good education we can improve our developing country going better. A better life and better qualification.
In my opinion, this article is good. From this, I know that education in Indonesia still in less, rather poor than another near neighbouring country such as Malaysia and Singapore.
I suggested everyone to read this, think over it deeply and please take it in your heart. Imagine that you’re the children on that position. It’s very hard!
Thursday, 9. October 2008, 09:18:50
english, review, tugas, artikel
Name :Anugraha Putra Pratama
Student Number :0806 4521 16
Faculty & Class :MIPA/B.404,Parallel 08
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Authors: Patricia Holt
I choose this article because this article was very unique. Human Intelligence was become complete. We have complexion in intelligence, such as brain intelligence and emotional intelligence. Both of them are so important. But, emotional has a major function as successful tester. Person who have more in emotional intelligence were become more social, more empathy, and they were self reliant and confident, trustworthy and dependable. And these, have more control in successful of life.
This article tells us about famous ‘impulse control’ test at a San Fransisco lecture by Daniel Goleman, called “The Marshmallow Challenge”. In this test, four-year-old were individually called into a room at Stanford University during the 1960’s. There, a kind man gave a marshmallow to each of them and said they could eat the marshmallow right away, or wait for him to come back from an errand, at which point they would get two marshmallows.
Some of them covered their eyes or rested their heads on their arm so they wouldn’t have to look at the marsmallow, or played games or sang to keep their heads on their arms so they wouldn’t have to look at the marshmallow and waited for the promised double prize. Others, about a third of the group, simply watched the man leave and ate the marshmallow.
What is surprising about this test, a dozen years later the same children were tracked down as adolescents and tested again. The ones who had resisted eating the marshmallow were clearly more socially competent than the others.
The author explain about recent discoveries in brain research that prove emotional stability is more important than IQ in determining an individual’s success in life. People that have better in emotional intelligence is more sociable, more and have more ability in the face of difficulty.
I think it is a good news. It can help us to develop our emotional intelligence more than IQ. Because, future is something unpredictable. Probably, we will face any different kind of trouble and of course, we need self confidence to survive against pressure. This confidence, should be trained by our experience of life.