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system and every learning aspects are learnt by the students from the institute. It is
called school-based education. In additionally children are learning from their family,
peers, neighbors and social experiences. They educate formally from private and
public institutions within structured way.
Non - formal education is defined as neither formal nor informal acquired through
books, social media, digital media etc. In contemporary society education has been
becoming a social trend, improving only students' skills and knowledge. Students are
spending their time while away in the school 6 hours with depending with compulsory
syllabus. Before secondary education children have many dreams to obtain their
ambitions, but after that they attend tertiary education and try to fulfill need of wide
color jobs, luxury vehicle and comfortable lifestyle. This attitude makes depend on
family stimulation with their childhood, children study within a structured system,
for example they study as "A" for "Apple". They don't seek beyond that structure.
This system only affects to their knowledge. It’s improving path for knowledge and
skill base education, not improving attitudes of children. Students' dreams and
ambitions created by parents and school education process encourage them to create
an ideal lifestyle with their education background. How this problematic situation
become and this is an appropriate topic at the present, parents’ dream stimulates
students less personal development and how it is impacting structured education
process has limited skill of education.
2. How to Define Education?
According to Big Indonesian Dictionary (1991), education is defined as a learning
process for the individual to attain knowledge and understanding of the higher
specific objects and specific. The knowledge gained formally resulting individual has
a pattern of thought and behavior in accordance with the education they have gained.
Education is the essential thing in the world. And also it should improve not only
children’s' knowledge and skills but their attitude also. After they connect with the
society, there could be understood their attitude which they improve within the school
through their behavior. Attitude is an expression of an individual or group towards an
object, an act of behavior, a system of norms etc., Depending on the learnt
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