Why education is important? Why should we need to educate human who is stated as ‘being alive’? Would it be possible to apply it on the animals? These questions seem to be so general but interesting and philosophical to explore.

Education is simply to humanize the human beings. This is crucial definition since people do not understand what education is. In fact, people see education for merely just a formal activity. They tend to ignore the basic concept of the education itself. Nor academicians and common people do forget this case.

Education is not merely teaching or increasing cognition. It is more about preparing a media for the learners’ cognition-It is an attitude. Having good attitude will provide a good medium for the cognition, learning behavior, learning autonomous, and critical thinking. Education will facilitate simple knowledge for anyone who needs it. Let’s say when a child asking his parents “Mom, could you tell me why water comes down from the sky?’ Mother should explain it simply and scientifically. The explanation must need little scientific knowledge and the child must be acceptable for the answer whether or not it is right. That is why education is important even though it is a non-formal education.


Human beings deserve to be educated although they are being alive and have thought, emotion, and willingness. They need a long life education to support their existence to live. Their various souls condition make them more optional in life in making any decision. This habit indicates that they could be wrong or exact to do so. Therefore, human beings still need to be educated in order to place them in the appropriate concept of thinking. This is not about the cognition but attitude. Human beings are sinned since their ancestors felt into the sin. This condition makes them trigger any concept, proposition, and hypothesis that might be different with others. Education plays the role in this case. It immerses them into appropriate thinking in stating any thought, emotion, and the willingness. Human has preference in judging based on what he knows. He will defend on his statement when another criticizes his statement and gives judgment.

Animals need no education. They are just trained to understand human


willingness. They just need human’s control to behave. They just need human’s expression of emotion to obey him. This makes difference with human who needs education to behave. Therefore, those people who are just leaning on his willingness, emotion, and controlled then he might be associated with animals. Human beings should not behave merely based on his soul-thought, emotion, and willingness-because they are more than animals. Educated person is not continuously under control, he knows what to do and how to do anything. In the other side, an educated person is able to control his willingness and emotion. Let’s say simple case: An educated person really does not want to come into dispute because he knows that doing dispute indicates an animal behavior.


Thus, education is really important that aims to humanize people in order to be different with animal behavior.