YAY, finally i got a certificate from GOI on the writing i submitted last june. i am exaggeratedly excited hahaha. eventhough i didn't win it, but i am proud of having joined this world-class competition.The tittle of my essay is "Creating Peace From School" ,here it is.
Basically,
the meaning of peace is all about appreciation that can we get from learning
every pieces of difference so it comes up the sense of understanding.Started
with communication by using understandable languages , so that others
will be open to fit in.
It starts
from my dissapointment of being ignored.Whenever i am asked by people about my
interest, i answer “I put an interest in linguistic and i wish i studied in
language class program so i must have known many about cultural thing”.But many
of them instead of replying “What will you get from that class program?
nowadays,the professional of scientific, who’s mastering high-tecnology and
economic are more needed in development of this country”.
In
indonesia,The educational system groups the study program into three
classifications,the science,the social and the language class program which
basically is purposed to absorb the student with their different interest and
ability.But, it just has changed into a form of educational discrimination
which places the science class into a privilege and the social and language
class program into the inferior ones.
Well,the
language class program is not interesting enough for most student over
here.They are indifferent to it and rather choose the science class as the main
choice which i say,it seems like being in science class program you will get
the prestige from people.Because of that narrow mindset and less devotee,many
school has closed the language class program and only one school in my town
that still holds that class with only less than thirty students following it.
In fact how
great the power of language, but only a few realize, and some suppose it’s
boring.The existence of language class program is very important for an effort
to create peace life and understanding among the different etnic,religion,and ras in all over the
world.We can learn the antropology and foreign languages intensively in order
to appreciate the cross-culture and to decrease the negative streotype towards
one cluster.
Whereas in
the language class, we are taught a lesson of anthropology to the reality of
wholly life and which is essential for the human development.We are also taught
a variety of foreign languages which are very important to communicate with the
cross country I think it would be useful to keep the peace because through
language we can communicate and convey the intent and purpose and so we can
understand each other.What it would be, if a Peacekeeper who is on a mission to
deliver a peace to all the world, but they have no knowledge of the language and
cultures to the group, so their intent cannot be delivered, at least it’s
needed an intrepreter’s service to understand each other
Therefore
what I expect for the present and the future is to eliminate the narrow
perspective of a language class and I want to prove that what is learned in the
classroom is not a vain thing.Because of being in language program class we
keep our identity by learning our cultures and others deeper and also we keep the
peace by understanding and appreciating other cultures.
I would like
to open their minds to learn what they desire to, not because of prestige from
people.Especially, for language class program which currently is supposed to be
such a trivial thing.I want people start to realize how important to learn world
culture,different customs of one nationality so every school in the the world
particullary in indonesia can hold the language program class.
What i want
for the future is to create peace started from now in the school with the
existence of language class program where people understand the differences by
learning the cultures.