Education General Concept of Character Building Education

2.7.1 Education

The world education is derived from Latin language as the root, which is educare. The meaning is to train and making the character of someone Khan, 2010:1. According to Hornby 1995:368 taken from Oxford Advance Learner‟s Dictionary education means a process of training and instruction; especially for children and young people in school, colleges, etc, which is designed to give knowledge and develop skills. Here, the emphasis is that education is a long life process to enrich students to grow; not only to prepare students facing the adultery phase. In the Dictionary of Education mentions that the definition of education is process of developing the ability of attitude, and all form of behavior in the society we live, and a social process where people faced by the environment they choose and controlled, so that they can get or experience the developing of social competence and individual competence. Moreover, Kneller 1986: 29 states that education is widely regarded as a moral enterprise. It is concerned with imparting moral values and improving individual and social behavior of the students. This is considered as the essence of education to encourage the growth of certain character and not only focus in the cognitive domain of the students. An expert of education comes from Holland; Langeveld defines education as a long life process. Education is guidance gave by adult to the children to achieve the goal, which is maturity. In line with Langeveld, GBHN 1973, as the guidance of operating the nation states that education in nature is considered as a conscious effort to develop character and human ability hold in and outside class as a long life process. It means that education is not limited only in the place called school, however, as a long life process; education can be done even outside the class as if the purpose is in line with the aim of education. The emphasis of building stud ents‟ character actually is the core of education for it is meant to achieve the betterment. In line with that statement, Munib 2009:29 defines education in the broad sense as process to develop all aspects of human personality. It covers the knowledge, the values, the attitude, and not to mention, the skills pedagogic. Education is never meant to destruct students‟ personality demagogic. Education in nature covers the activity of teaching, educating, and training. Those activities are the bridge to transform values which in practice they should be integrated, continued and compatible with the growth of students and their environment. The values which would be transformed here are the value of religious, the value of culture, and the value of knowledge, skill and technology. From the above definitions, education can be reviewed as follow: 1 a process of growing up regarding to the environment 2 an instruction and guidance gave to children in their growth period 3 a conscious effort to create a condition or a circumstance which is intended by the society 4 an effort of shaping character, personality and ability of children to achieve maturity.

2.7.2 Definition of Character Building Education