CHARACTER EDUCATION IN THE LEARNING PROCESS FOR THE GENERATION OF THE NATION

Abstract

Educational approaches that rely on physical and intellectual abilities alone will only give birth to children who are intellectually smart (logic, language, count), but weak in self-development skills and a positive attitude and understanding of the emotional values (teamwork, empathy, leadership, steadfast, patient, etc). While most people assume that the measure of success of one's children is the extent to which he is able to achieve high marks in the subjects taught, such as science, Mathematics, Foreign Language, and so on. In fact, this ability is only a small part of the key person's intelligence and success. Results of recent research shows that "kuntribusi" IQ (intellectual intelligence) at most about 20% of the success of the life course, so that the remaining 80% is determined by other factors, namely a set of factors called Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (Daniel Goleman in Emotional Intelligence).