The Importance of School

22 attitude and develop any talent or potential as human beings, so human nature to avoid distortion. 31

F. The School as Institution to Implement Islamic Education

1. The Importance of School

The school is a manifestation of the realization of the implementation of educational goals. In definition of modern social, school is a result of politic-social change which happened in social community. The change has been organized by the government. Then, the political policy direct to the importance of social organization, from this the government has responsibility for all social problems. Furthermore, to response all of social problems, the nation interpret into an institution that it was called “school”. The school is to construct the culture in accordance with national philosophy. Therefore, Later in the Islamic concept that the primary function of a school is as a medium for the realization of educational objectives based on creed and laws of thought to realize servitude to God and the Oneness of Gods attitude and develop any talent or potential as human beings, so human nature to avoid distortion. 32 The school as the circle of formal education is mediator to transform culture a community, especially school as transfer in the process of dynamic human culture. 33 At least, there are 8 functions of the school, namely “prepared student for a jobs, gave basic skill and set a chance to improve fate, supplied the power of building, help to solve the social problems, transmit the culture, build a human social, and the last transformed cultural”. 34 31 Muhaimin, Pengembangan Kurikulum PAI di Sekolah, Madrasah, dan Perguruan Tinggi, Jakarta: PTRajawali Pers, 2009, Edisi I, p. 31. 32 Abdurrahman An Nahlawi, Pendidikan Islam di Rumah, Sekolah dan Masyarakat, Jakarta: Gema Insani, 1995, Cet I, p. 150. 33 Samsul Nizar, Dasar-dasar Pemikiran Pendidikan Islam, Jakarta: Gaya Media Pratama, 2001, Cet. I, p. 128. 34 Samsul Nizar, Dasar- dasar…, p. 129. 23 From those statements, the school as a place to construct behaving person, social people and applying the values of culture even the school as a place to build spiritual people. School has the fundamental function in implementation of Islamic. Furthermore the fundamental function, as the following: a. The school as a place in simplification and conclusion. b. The school as a place in Purification holiness and filter. c. The school as a place to develop the insight and experience of student by transfer culture. d. Realize for being bound, integration, harmony, homogeneity between students. e. The school is a place to validate and organize educational facility and. f. The school is a place to complete roles of family in giving education. 35

2. The Implementation of Islamic education in Public Schools.