The Age of Disruption

The critics of the national education system bill send a reminder over the socio-cultural and economic changes that have had a profound impact on the world of education in this country.

Come post-pandemic, the dimming ray of hope is beginning to glimmer. While retrieving passion in all aspects of life, it has yet to shed light particularly on the field of education, which seems to be embroiled in a recurrent polemic.

The learned lesson is that human education is very complex and multidimensional. This is probably why distinguished figures of earlier generations, such as Soedjatmoko, Sartono Kartodirdjo, Mochtar Buchori, YB Mangunwijaya, Andi Hakim Nasution, J Drost, Ahmad Syafii Maarif and Azyumardi Azra — to name a few — used to warn against toying with education.