THE DION'S ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIAL

GETTING BETTER FROM BITTERNESS By : Marsudiono [*]             In Indonesia the price of life is cheaper than the price of chili. It is still well recorded in our mind, how many lives lost in the calamity of Merapi eruption, earth quake and tsunami in Mentawai, land slide, and flooding in several areas of Indonesia. The victim is only a matter of statistic. Most people said that it was as a result of geographical phenomena.             Indonesian has lost its sophisticated moral values. Not very long ago, not more than fifteen years before this country was bombarded by monetary crisis, we were ever proud of our nation as civilized society. It was written in the book of Pancasila and Civic Education. Here, we were described as friendly people.             After Indonesia had entered the gate of reformation, the flowers of freedom euphoria bloomed everywhere. Now the flowers have turned into the fruits of anarchy, egotism, harassment, violence, rudeness, and abuse which tort

INTELECTUAL UN EMPLOYMENTS INCREASE WHAT’S WRONG WITH OUR EDUCATION?  By : Marsudiono, S.Pd             In globalization era, everyone is forced to compete in getting life space; therefore one should have a good competence and performance. Having a good skill and broad knowledge are necessary to whoever wants to get a good position in a job. That is why recently there are many people go to school, course, college, university, etc in the hope that they will be able to live better. But the problem is, now there are many senior high schools and universities graduation who being unemployment. Does this mean that education is in vain and unable to solve the problem of unemployment? What’s wrong with our education so that our graduation prefer to look for a job than to create a job, and why some of them fail in competing for getting a job ? In this essay the writer will discuss this problem from educational point of view.             The ideal expectation is that soon after graduat