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Volume 1 , Number 2, November 2016 

 ISSN : 2579-8383 (Print) ISSN : 2579-8405 (Online)  

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Education Human Excellence 

 

Aminul Wathon 
STAI Mifahul 'Ula Kertosono Nganjuk 

netbarca@gmail.com 
 

Published:  
November  20 2016 

Reviewed:  
September 13 2016 

Accepted: 
August 12 2016 

 
Abstract:In line with the logic of ecology and the philosophy of Existentialism, 
the existence of one thing is always in the company of one or more of other 
things. This, to give a correct idea or to avoid misunderstandings of the use of 
the predicate ahead as in terms like seeds, superior schools, excellent products 
of education, and others, it is morally imperative for the users of such terms to 
provide the terms with Reviews their Contexts to Determine Whether a 
superior means 'prime', 'superior', 'competitive', or any other. Instances of such 
Contexts can be of appearance or performance, of a long or short term, of the 
current objectives or future goals, of individuals or the community, of 
individual or social needs, of national or international needs, of inclusive or 
exclusive purposes, and others. Even now, the writer is still of the belief that 
the usage of the aforementioned Reviews those terms in the field of education 
in Indonesia is still more as jargon rather than basic concepts. Indeed very 
rarely or even never does the public, particularly subject to Reviews those who 
are very much concerned with the development of education in Indonesia, to 
get a thorough explanation of Reviews those terms Mentioned. This article tries 
to build a kind of "second opinion" as a balance to the existence of that jargon 
Mentioned. 
 
 
Keywords:superior, Insaniah excellence, superior education, education. 
 

Introduction 

The word "superior" similar to those used in the terms "superior seeds," 

"top schools", "excellent product", and so forth, have been generally accepted 

by society contains positive values "given" without the need or desire to know, 

let alone understand, how the real stickiness positive values "given" that the 

object being assessed. On the other hand, it may be a group of other people 

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who are more critical of course, will soon ask a question related to "superior 

value" is, for example asking about "what's so superior" or "how true form of 

excellence" is. The essence of the answer to the substance of the questions will 

be related to the basic parameters of the existence of something in the field of 

science is expressed as ontology, epistemology, and axiology. 

This paper seeks to convey the essence of a superior meaning other 

than that which has been understood the general public. Superior meaning here 

might be an overarching meanings that excel others associated with the man 

advantage from the side which can be explained by the mind and or science that 

has been and still is developed by humans, especially the experts. In this paper 

the concept of superior individuals defined as individuals who achieve the 

development of human capabilities optimum potential. The potency of the 

essential human question is the potential to solve the problem of life and 

human life, both as individuals, groups, communities, societies, nations, and as 

the world's inhabitants. 

Related to education, Insaniah berkeunggulan education is defined as 

education that accommodates the development of the potential of human 

capabilities. Though human excellence is understood (axiomatic) can not, will 

not, and will never even able to impress excellence in individual human beings 

ability is concerned. If only touching human excellence or domain area 

development potential human capabilities that are already exist within each 

human being. Potential ability of human beings, as creatures created by the 

Creator and not a creature created by himself, clearly limited presence. 

However, where or how the limit is never and will never be known. 

 

Human Life and Education 

Humans are creatures of God's creation of the most perfect in terms of 

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integrated into the setting of space, time, and the community. Potential ability 

to think the most essential is the ability to distinguish danJatau space of time 

that allows people to connect the phenomenon in the past with the present to 

face and connect phenomena in the current time with things that might be 

encountered in the future. 

 

The journey of human life in space and time (past, present, future) 

which forms a continuum (not intermittent) positions the man into a creature 

that has always been, is, and will learn with relentless lifelong (lifelong learning). 

Throughout the life journey of a human being, the ability to think, act, and 

merasalmenilainya always in a state of change, evolve and adapt, in space and 

time and setting sosiaI culture. 

Education is an attempt to humanize humans. Humanize means to 

prepare people to be able to live and continue to live in the community as a 

whole either as individual beings, social animals, and creatures that civilized 

culture. The essence of human life is finite human rights down time. Rights 

came into force along this time when he was born and ends when it is turned 

off. 

Single issue man in retracing his life is met with problems. Thus, the 

sole function of human life in the traverse time hidupnyaadalah menyele-saikan 

problem. The problem here is defined as all the problems facing humanity from 

second to second, minute to minute, hour to hour, from day to day, from 

month to month, from year to year, and so on, and also from room to room ( 

place) and of socio-cultural settings back to the one to the other. 

The essence of the existence of the problem, in essence, is a human 

existence itself. When there are no humans there would be no problem. Where 

there is a problem there must be a human. Capital material of human life 

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activator (central processing and control work) solving problems of human life 

is the brain and heart (conscience) or reasonable and human character. 

As part of a problem-solving system, the brain and the human heart can 

not live on its own work. To be able to function as a problem-solving system, 

the brain and the human heart needs to be prepared beforehand. Preparing the 

brain. human means filling the brain with knowledge system (not just the grains 

knowledge apart-Iepas) and system skills (not just beads off skills). Preparing 

the human heart means filling the human heart with moral value system (not 

just the grains loose-loose morals). 

The fundamental nature of systemic filling the brain and the human 

heart is-interactive subjective and not as filling a suitcase with items or filling 

bottles with a liquid. The subjective nature is defined as there is always a chance 

of acceptance or rejection of the grain fields that want loaded on the subject of 

children by anyone at any time. On the other hand, the interactive nature of the 

systemic filling the brain and the human heart always presents an opportunity 

for the akslarasi, both positive negative mapun, as a function of the fit between 

the characteristics of the fill, that is loaded, and the individuals who filled itself. 

 Charging system of knowledge to the human brain is done through 

teaching (not only at school), the charging system of skills into the human brain 

is done through training (anywhere, anytime), and the charging system of values 

into the heart of man is done through suggestion (assignments, experience, 

pilot) value -moral values. The combination and integration of third intact 

charging program it is the essence of education. 

Programming the brain and the human heart filling is done or happened 

since the formation sigot (potential new individual sperm cell fusion results 

father and the mother's egg cell) to the end of life of the individual concerned 

or lifelong. What should, should, or should be taught, trained, and it is 

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process in the subject to the students? - In order for the performance of the 

respective fields as well as its synergies within the subject students can have 

berkeunggulan properties. This is the essence of the 

problem(stateoftheart)education issues. 

It should be underlined that the program of human abilities (cognitive, 

psychomotor, and affective), in essence, is a problem-solving system problem 

itself is always changing or different from time to time and from place to place 

taken or passed by the subject students. The essence of the program should be 

generic human ability. This generic form of program is not shaped availability 

of the list of problems with se-gala possible solutions such as 

facility"Help"provided by the computer application programs to help computer 

users when it got into trouble or resistance applications. 

Individual development and potential of Insaniah 

existence of an individual (man) started from the presence of a 

sigot(zygote)the result of the joining of a sperm cell from the father and an egg 

from the mother who carries all the attributes and potential development of 

each. Merging the two cells produces a unique individual. Each sigot carry their 

own DNA (DNA unique combination of parental DNA) as a developer and 

implementer of programs fetal development of autonomous appropriate 

message (sort of information) which has been available in its DNA, including 

messages adjustments to the stimulus, stimulus, or environmental conditions 

that exist. 

Sigot develop into fetuses, then evolved into the infant in the womb 

until ready to be born. In this phase of the case preparation and their organ 

function according to the programs available (though some sort of information) 

in its DNA. From birth until the age of five, the DNA of the individual is set 

up, control and develop the performance of the organ to reach the summit 

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institutions(setting)Lingkung's as a source of adjustment (a kind of resources) 

which is in contact with the individual. 

Potential Insaniah, in fact, inherent in the nature / karak-teristik organ 

that is organized and controlled by DNA that are owned by individuals 

themselves. Insaniah potential development in any form, including in the form 

of education, who do not pay attention or even ignore the potential and karak-

teristik existing individual potential to be a denial of natural qualities of the 

individual concerned and thus biased. 

Overview psychological growth of children from birth until the age of 

two years are as follows (Wikipedia, 2007. Last modified 07:56, April 11, 2007). 

1. The development ofreflexes (first six weeks of Life). 

2. The development ofhabits (six weeks to four months): repeating ofan 

action involving only ones own body. 

3. The development ofcoordination between vision and prehension (four to 

nine months). This is perhaps one ofthe most important stages ofa child's 

growth, the dawn oflogic. 

4. The development of logic (nine to twelve months): the coordination 

between means and ends. '' first proper intelligence. "This is an 

extremely important stage of development. 

5. Becoming a" young scientist "(twelve to eighteen months) con-ducting 

pseudo-experiments to discover new methods of meeting the challenges. 

6. The beginnings ofinsight or true creativity (up to two years). 

7. Those six sub-stages together mark the child's passage into independent 

thought and, Eventually, adult maturity.1 

 

Growth at the age of 2-7 years are as follows: 

                                                      
1 Tim Wikipedia, Theory Of Cognitive Development From Wikipedia, The Free 

Encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org,Accessed on 11 April 2016 at 7:56 pm). 

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1. Symbolic functioning - is Characterized by the use of Mental!) ymbols 

words or pictures the which the child uses to represent something the 

which is not physically present. 

2. Concentration - is indicated resources by a child concentrating more on 

one aspect of a person the which is consistent rather than concentrating on 

the inconsistent aspects of his personality, behavior or physical 

characteristics. 

3. Intuitive thought - Occurs when the child is Able to believe in something 

without knowing why she or he Believes it. 

4. Inability to Conserve - is indicated resources by the child is not Able to 

conserve mass, volume or number after the original form has changed.2 

 

Concrete Operational Stage development or growth at theage of 

7-12 years are as follows: 

1. decentering - where the child takes into account multiple aspects of a 

problem to solve it. 

2. Reversibility - where the child understands that numbers or objects can be 

changed, then Returned to Reviews their original state. 

3. Conservation - understanding that quantity, length or number of items is 

unrelated to the arrangement or appearance of the object or items. 

4. Serialation - the ability to arrange the objects in an order According to size, 

shape or any other characteristic. 

5. Classification - the ability to name and identify sets of objects According to 

appearance, size or other characteristic, Including the idea that one set of 

objects can include another. 

6. Delimitation of Egocentrism - the ability to view things from anothers' 

perspective (even if they think incorrectly).3 
                                                      
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At the age of 12 years onwards (adult) individuals experiencing growth 

at the level of formal operational stage which is characterized by the emergence 

of the ability to think abstractly and draw conclusions from the available 

information.4 

The above description shows that the development potential of all 

human impossibility of an intact circuit (continuum) were not separated. It 

implies that if individual potential development of human excellence is also an 

all-wholeness. Efforts to achieve this wholeness is nothing but a form of 

learning environment that is accommodative to the development potential of 

the subject's ability learners. 

Efforts are exclusive partial slogans or motto-motto that promises 

success or all suksesan seemed only serves as a desecration or even pen-dholim 

late to the natural history of the development and per-plant Insaniah potential 

human abilities. 

 

Human Resource Empowerment 

Itselfempowerment of human resources is to build a generic 

preparedness of individual problem solvers of life for the individual concerned 

and its species (family, community, society, nation, humanity). The 

empowerment necessary for the creation of a system or educational programs 

that build generic skills (thinking, acting, and acting) to solve the problem of life 

and life can be justified scientifically, social, cultural, and religious. 

  

Lnsaniah Berkeunggulan education 

key to success over the education system mainly lies in the subject 

                                                                                                                                        
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students opportunities to communicate the identity and the dynamics of the 

learning process. The capture of the identity and the dynamics of the learning 

process allows learners the subject in deploying optimal accommodation for the 

learning process (broad sense) in the subject students. The accommodation 

needs should be interactive (two-way) for educated and educating a subject to 

have their uniqueness. 

Interkatif equal working relationship harmony is key to the success of 

interactive performance. Only one is dominant or even intentionally dominate 

the interaction existing interactive work that there would not be effective, let 

alone efficient, alias failed. 

Examples of educational response: 

"However, not all the students who enter a university have experience 

even to type a computer keyboard in Japan. To develop the ability to Operate a 

computer the Government pushes forward with the plan of an educational 

reform in an information science from elementary schools to high schools. A 

computer environment will be available in almost all the schools soon, and the 

educational curriculum changes quickly intervening. It is also planning to 

construct a virtual university roomates Provides higher education through 

online lesson for a wide variety of persons. A university is expected to change 

qualitatively. in such circum-stances a multipurpose independent-study 

environment for information technology-based education and training was 

constructed in Hiroshima university at June 2000 ".5 

 

 

 

                                                      
5 Tomohiro Inagaki CS, Multipurpose Independent Study Environment For Information 

Technology Based Education And Training Information Media Center (Hiroshima: 

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World Education Reform 

At this time the world aware of need provided alternative education 

more fundamental and more essential to the world population. A number of 

countries (especially developed countries) has initiated and implemented the 

concept of the new education with the label umbrella include lifelong education, 

lifelong learning, informal education, informal learning, learning communities, 

learningsociety,and so on all of which boiled down to the concept of education for 

all (education for all or EFA) and all for education (all for education or SUP).6 

Main ideas contained in the new education concept is aimed at 

improving the lives that lead to the overall quality of human life and education 

is a lifelong process. Learning continues without interruption Sepan-life which 

will only happen when there is a choice of life and the type of community 

groups informed completely and clearly in the environment (habitat) that 

community life. Learning is a process that always happens and is part of daily 

human life (community). Accordingly, any opportunity to learn something new 

in the community's kehidup need to be utilized. 

Special things that need to be observed on the main ideas contained in 

the new education concept is the concept of the subject students are defined as 

the intelligent beings that have the potential to learn a lot of whatever they 

found and they are facing in the environment around him. 

 

Alternative Education Sector Reform in Indonesia 

When the paradigm of "subject students are intelligent creatures that 

have the potential to learn a lot of whatever they found and they are facing in 

the environment around him" acceptable in Indonesia, the Indonesian 

education system should need melaku-kan reforms. Alternative education 

                                                      
6 Federico Mayor and Tanguiane Serna, The Continuing Relevance Of A Visionary Text 

(UNESCO, 1997, http: //www.unerco.org,accessed on 12 April 2016 at 09.00 pm) 

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reform in Indonesia related to the components of operational actions and 

actors on education or teaching that includes - The Me- (teachers, teacher), 

Yang Di- (students, pupils, learners), Process Me- (approaches, methods, 

technique, tactics), Yang Di-kan (teaching materials, teaching materials), and 

Target Me- (targeted competency) is as follows. 

For component "What Me" or the teacher may need to slide the attitude 

of "can feel" (posivistik) to "can feel" (Naturalistic) and of "craft prosecutor 

student" to "guiding all students bisaan". Thus, teachers will no longer function-

like se pumping limited knowledge and skills that are possessed but creators of 

teaching and learning activities to explore and creatively utilize all the learning 

resources that are around or that can be held to about a place to learn. 

In a new setting that teachers no longer play a major role to motivate 

students to ask, let alone force, his team were so diligent to learn, but to give 

and or me-Rehearse kebisaaan-toxicity prerekuisit the basis of what will be an 

asset for students to master the ability-poisoned more , In this setting the 

teacher is no longer mengkredokan "clever base diligent" so that teachers tend 

to be a public prosecutor rather ape-jinan students take the principle of "Clever 

base raj in" which emphasizes the obligation of teachers to make students into 

"can" (got intelligence) that subsequently be auto-Matis will cause diligent 

student task of grains due to the success of the work (ability) they get. 

For component "Yang Di" or students may need diako-modasi and 

encouraged in order to have the desire to always try. In order not to discourage 

try for those who still fail or have not succeeded of course the substance of the 

defense-distance her to be selected that has a level of difficulty that students 

could hardly be - once again almost can not - so students eventually will be able, 

even with the possible efforts rather heavy. 

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Viewed from the side "Me- Process" which includes approach, me-tode, 

techniques, and tactics of the principles which should be held "makes it 

difficult" and "difficult easy" or the principle of "reasonable challenge". Judging 

from the art of teaching it emphasizes engagement and involvement to learn 

and fun to learn the subject or subjects students study. 

In terms of substance "Yang Di-kan" or materials may need to be 

shifted entirely or proportionally of "substance-oriented disciplines" to 

"substance-oriented functions, duties, and obligations of life and habitable 

human" in accordance with the level of thought and learners experience the 

actual subject there. With this model automatically students will be carried in 

the atmosphere of the significance of teaching materials studied. 

Associated with the ability or competence is taught-Rehearse may need 

to be directed to things that are analytical, synthesis, evaluative, reflective of the 

early life problems and real-life students to achieve the ability to behave and act 

can be justified scientifically, social, cultural, and religious, but always adapted to 

the real capability level that has been owned by the students along with the 

physical and mental development. 

 

Indonesia Education Characteristics 

Of the various academic discussions, it is suspected that a number of 

negative side implementation of the education system in Indonesia which 

memerlu-kan efforts to reform or systemic changes. Some of them are as 

follows. 

1. Either consciously or not education in Indonesia tend to emphasize "a 

formality more important than the essence". It has become a kind of 

cultural disease that values appearance(appearance)more will be found or 

used as the main reference rather than performance (performance). Indeed, 

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want to see good results, and or encouraging news. However, naturally 

anyway, a forgetting, omission, or disclaimer of all weaknesses, the negative 

side, or the negative impact of an activity or performance will give positive 

results that are false are very likely the end result is negative men-base and 

ultimately fatal , Products is indeed a positive that is products that are also 

always raised the weaknesses that occur from the positivity follow-

positivity appearing. 

2. The holders of authority in educational systems tend to be positivistic 

excessive by relying on pen-dekatan positivistic quantitative naturally seems 

it is not and will never correspond to menyelesai-kan problems associated 

with man and all humanity that naturally there will always diwamai by their 

unique differences between one human being with another human being. 

Starting from the unique nature of human nature is the best way (makes 

sense) to mempertemukannya is a naturalistic approach that characterized 

its early existence by recognizing the difference. 

3. In terms of leadership in the organization system of the education system 

in Indonesia, it seems the leaders are likely to have a reference to the-I's 

bigger than all of our late and much less to all of our's. Perhaps "change 

minister byword policy change" is one symptom that is caught to the 

possibility of the phenomenon. 

4. It should be noted that the superior concept which has been used in the 

orientation of the education system in Indonesia is linked to the concept of 

partial advantage that the context was never traced or dijelasakan 

comprehensively. 

  

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needs to be clarity so that it will be able to invite the responsibility, 

accountability, and community participation in the widest part of the 

responsibility and accountability of the Indonesian nation nationality. So it 

needs to be explored and defined the meaning of excellence in education is 

more fundamental than that during this popular understood and referred to by 

most people, including the public bureaucracy and stakeholders to arbitrary 

field of education in Indonesia. 

Keep in mind that the only hope of an education work involving many 

parties is the lack of commitment by the parties involved. The most vulnerable 

in the presence of commitment is that the intensity or quality of commitment 

memedomani itself is controlled entirely by the parties involved in each and 

nobody can Mengen-dalikannya. Leaders, coaches, or coaches can not force the 

implementation of a commitment to the people who were under his leadership. 

In other words there is no word manipulation or direct intervention that can be 

done to improve the quality memedomani commitment for the parties 

involved. 

Finally, deciding everything together work success is awareness of the 

parties involved. When will we, me, and you have this awareness? Only time can 

prove it 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



  
 

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