Oleh: Ramdan Nugraha
I believe that education is the root
of human civilization since it brings ideas and builds the meaning of life in
every generation of the mankind. From education, there are a lot of aspects
born and influence what people do on earth such as justice, honesty, humanity,
morality, cleanliness, tolerance, respectability, belief, etc. It shows that
education seems to be the mother of all the good things exist in life.
Besides, the importance of education
can be seen from the school curriculum that changes very often adapting the
needs of the learners and goals of learning. Most of the countries around the
world put more attention to education. Further, Indonesia is the only one
country allocating the goverment’s budgeting 20% for education. Those facts are
clear enough to define that education has its high position on the top of the states’
priority. In this short writing I would like to figure out the essence of
education according to some muslim’s scholars who have been dealing with the
field of education with the well-experienced paradigm.
Ahmad Dahlan (1868-1923) is
one of the greatest muslim scholars in Indonesia who chose education as the
main area for establishing and sharing his thoughts to people in Yogyakarta in
order to develop Islamic understanding by directly implemented the Islamic
values which popularly called as The
Spirit of Al-Ma’un. Kiayi Dahlan believes that education is the important
aspect to help people change their mind paradigm to be the better social creature
for creating and implemeting good deeds in the social enviroment.
Kiayi Dahlan established Islamic
movement that focusing on education namely Muhammadiyah in 1912. He believes
that Muhammadiyah as the social organization can bridge and maintain the
paradigm direction among its members to the surroundings. Besides, education
which is built up in term of organization will easily create cadres with the
expected thoughts and paradigm that keep struggling on the right track of doing
good things. In this case, the education of religion is the way to run the
organization effectively.
Another scholars, Abdul Mu’ti and
Fajar Riza Ul Haq (2009) state specifically that education of religion have the
meaningful role to create the generation with good character and have more
tolerance among society. Since there are a lot of problems happened in
Indonesia caused by the less of morality and being intolerance among the
believers of religions, the position of education is crucial to be the
problem-solving. In further, Sudhamek (2010) assumes education should be viewed
as the knowledge industry that can be professionally maintained by the new
paradigm.
Education is found to be important too
according to Ali bin Abi Thalib (in Rinaldi, 2014) as the fourth Caliphate of
Islam who stated that the position of knowledge is much more important than the
wealth and there is no serious poverty except the stupidity. It obviously shows
that knowledge can be gained through education as the meaningful value in life.
That statement clearly defines the role of education has higher level than any
other aspects of life such as wealth which means money, houses, clothes, cars,
and so on. In fact, education leads and guides human to reach those kind of
life’s components or the secondary needs.
In brief, education is strongly
integrated with human civilization in shaping the view points to run the life
better. I could say that education has become the main aspect for building up
the states as what we still remember when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were exploded
by America by using the atomic bom in the world war 2. The first question uttered
by the survivor was “are there any
teachers still alive?”.
References
AWS, Sudhamek (2010). Tantangan dan Rejuvenasi Peran Strategis
Muhammadiyah. Jakarta: MAARIF Vol. 5, No. 1 – Juni 2010, p.61-70
Mu’ti, Abdul and Haq, Fajar Riza
Ul (2009). Kristen Muhammadiyah: Konvergensi
Muslim dan Kristen Dalam Pendidikan. Ciputat: Al-Wasat Publishing House
Rinaldi, John (2014).
Nasihat-Nasihat Emas Khulafau Rasyidin: Pesan-Pesan
Agung Dari Penduduk Surga. Yogyakarta: Sabil
Salam, Junus (2009). K.H. Ahmad
Dahlan: Amal dan Perjuangannya.
Ciputat: Al-Wasat Publishing House
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