PIDATO : BAHASA INGGRIS

“ATTITUDE AS OUR GRATITUDE”

By Timothy Koraag

When someone owe a gratitude on you and they pay it, how do you behave? Are you going to be happy? Feel respected? Satisfy? Appreciated? Well, those things are such a nice attitude, right? It’s like students owed grattitude on teachers.

Today my speech is about gratitude on Teacher, a person who has taken me from crayon to perfume, who taught me right from wrong and a weak from strong, well, that’s a lot to learn but how can i thank them, what can i give them in return? Times before i don’t know until i finally realized that they need respect, feel appreciated and thankful.

For me being a Teacher is such a sublime occupation because they’re teaching us the students untill we mature enough to face the world. But today what they give them in return? Teacher being disrespectful, unappreciated, unthankful by students, i mean those things are the opposite from what i thought.

Let’s see on July 2016 from Kompas.com said a Junior High School Teacher from Sidoarjo North Java named Muhammad Samhudi (46) been arrested by the Public Prosecutor because he pinched one of the student who didn’t want to do a prayer. the Prosecutor said that he broke the law in Chapter 80 Subsection 1 rule of Children Protection of 2014 Indonesian Constituation number 35. The Defendant demands prison for 6 Months and 1 year on trial. Samhudi reported by the parents of the student who pinched by him, because the parents cannot excuse what he did to their child.

A few times later this is what happened (showing pictures) reported by Liputan6.com many Teacher being afraid to teach after the case of a teacher pinched a student. I mean what happen with this country? If all the teachers being afraid to teach then who’s going to teach us? Is that what they want? Well, back into the previous case can you even imagine how ridiculous that thing? I mean a pinch? Is that his gratitude on his teacher?

I think the teacher did the right thing because the student didn’t want to do the prayer that’s why he pinched him but how ridiculous also the parents of the student who cannot excuse what the teacher did to their child so they report it to the people who have the obligation of to arrest the teacher.

Then to the parents, why don’t you just teach you’re own child in your house if you don’t want the teacher to pinch them? Well, that’s the consequences if you enter you’re child into the School. I mean it’s okay to arrest the teacher if the student didn’t do anything but he pinched him, that’s crazy of course. Education supposed to be tough so it can produce a quality generation who can develope this country well, if the education is not tough what would happen with our country? Of course bad things which i cannot say it one by one but you know it.

The Prosecutor said that the teacher broke the law in Chapter 80 Subsection 1 rule of Children Protection of 2014 Indonesian Constituation number 35, one of the point is about violence on children, well, i think the paradigm of the constitution needs to be changed. I’m not saying that i blamed the constituation but it comes from our mindset, the way we think.

A lot of people also defend the teacher who been arrested, reported by Kompas.com the Chairman of Indonesian legistilative assembly Ade Komarudin Jakarta, July 2016 said that we need to re-recite the definition of violence on children on 2014 Indonesian Constituation number 35.

And also the Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesian Muhajir Effendi Surabaya, August 2016 said that the Education of Indonesia still is brittle, to produce a strong generation the Education system needs to be tough and hard. if it’s not our generation will be easy to be beaten. He also explained that by a Hard and Tough Education doesn’t mean a violence, that’s why also that People need to think professionally.

Well, I am totally agree with both of them, that in case to produce a quality generation we needs to have a hard and tough education system, and also needed to change our paradigm and the mindset, the way we think, our demeanor.

And now who’s going to be blamed? The Teacher? The Student? Parents? People who got the obligation of? I think nobody is going to be blamed it’s just back into ourselves that we need to change our mindset, the way we think, our demeanor our attitude. Because everything comes from ourselves, nothing else. We as the most gifted creatures need to use part of ourselves correctly and nicely.

Back into the thing that by ourselves especially we as Students owed a grattitude on Teacher, we shoulda payed for it, we need to respect them, appreciate them, thank them. Well i chose this topic because this is my senior year and in about 150 days more i will be graduate from this school and i feel the weight of the worth is to the teachers. I owed them a gratitude and my attitude is how i pay it. Dear All, Thank you and Happy National Teacher’s Day.