The Role of
Campus in Character Building of a College
Today, have a look the ways of
improving morale in our country. Seems like the increasing of violence cases, the
incoherence of politics rhetorical and the habitual life. As a result character
education which emphasize to ethnic and religious is not applicable. Why?
Because we can seen the character of education tradition in our country is not
mature for infold character education as result of culture and religious
worked. Because of that characters education should be suppose to pedagogy with
strongly related to scientific regime and
puerocentrisme who value student activities. The
habit of critical thinking through
the logic of a strong grounding in every
argument has not become
habitual. Talking about character building of
a college, of course has strongly related with campus. As can be seen campus is
an atom of character building of college. Campus is not ivory tower that impedes a
variety of critical thought and revolutionary. Indeed campus is the beacon
tower of all studying various and empirical solving.
Campus is a place that would create a young generation who have a good
character, have good attitude and have ready to enter in the real life not to
create an egoist doll that only cares to their self. In this essay I will describe about the role
of campus in character building of a college.
Didin S. Damanhuri states that a college is a student
who incidentally as the entity of subsystem in society whole and considered ideally.
Besides being an
academic world that makes it taste the empirical
and theoretical thinking,
and independence are
not bound by a variety of interests, it makes students have a broad perspective and
outlook to be
able to move in all walks of life. It also closed
similar with Marx in Lincoln (1985) states that college is “agent of change,
agent of social control, and iron
stock. But
have we realized it? Or at least contribute a little at a change? Or just make
our campus create apathy’s student which has high value without have any application
in the life? or campus just as scholar
printer ready to work even able to ‘pawn’ ideal of truth with just a big salary. Thousands and even billions of atoms then united to
form a particle. Campus is
a place where generations
of enlightened nations will
be born, also one of their atoms. And the particle
is the student's own
character. The gross national political scene in this
Republic, the rampant corruption
in various private
and government institutions, the emergence of acts of
radicalism, as well as various other
social issues, undeniably stems from the existence of irregularities in the
process of formation of human
character itself.
To answer
those questions above is characters education in college. Character education
is a natural reaction to the stagnation Rousseauian pedagogy and pedagogical instrumentalism
which emphasizes to ethical-spiritual dimension on personal formation process
Forester (1969). The purpose of education is to build character embodied in the
essential unity of the subject with life’s behaviour and attitude. Character
becomes contingent identity that transcends the ever-changing experience. Foerster
also states there are four basic traits in character education. First is the
regularity of the interior in which every action is measured based on a
hierarchy of values and normative values should guide every action. Second is
the coherence that gives courage makes a person firmly on principle, not easily
swayed or frightened in new situations of risk. Coherence is a fundamental and builds
trust with each other. The lack of coherence undermined the credibility of a
person. The third is autonomy, there was someone from outside to internalize
the rules be for personal values. It can be seen through an assessment of
personal decisions without being influenced or urging other parties. Fourth are
determination and loyalty, Dependability is an endurance one to covet what is
considered good. And loyalty is the foundation for respect for the selected
commitment. Maturity is the fourth character, continued Foerster, allowing
people past the stage of individuality to the personality. "Modern people
often confuse between individuality and personality, between me naturally and
I'm spiritual, between the independence of the exterior and interior."
Character is what determines the form of a person in all those actions. Because
youth is the anxiety, is galloping pace of change.
As a result, campus is a miniature or simulate
of the real life in society context. Campus not only creates an intellectual
student, but also dilute noble in any field, regardless of competence. Dynamic
movement of students not only narrowed the meaning of the demonstrations as a
student advocacy process, but more than it are dilated characterizing its
meaning as a process of student character, competitiveness and noble, through
whatever way. This is where the beginning of an inevitable formation of
personalities of national youngsters who really beneficial to our nation,
state, and religion. ".what is thinking if it separate from the problem of
life” (WS. Renda). Have a look the development of our college today. Most of
them are only confined to the routine activities in campus and do not have a
broad perspective for the future. They just come, learn, then go home and do
nothing. It really scares if our young generation continually has perspective
like this. So as a college it is our responsibility to build a formidable
character and has a mature personality, not only as a student who must complete
an obligation in an academic environment. The important thing is we have to pay
attention the role of a college. We have to have a role in community and apply
the knowledge gained while in college. Science is not just theoretical, but
practical knowledge as well. Therefore characters building in campus are
necessity to bring better for our character development in improving our
ability holding on attitude.
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