To teach how to think or reason is to prioritize rationality. Like learning to swim, students don't simply learn from the teacher's knowledge, but dive into the pool themselves, to be actively involved.

For Ki Hadjar, education is a vehicle for nation-building in order to achieve an equal, prosperous, advanced (dignified), unified, character-built life, and get involved in world interaction peacefully and independently

Literacy, for the majority of people today, does not mean something as simple as reading and writing. However, with the most basic literacy, street workers at Tegal City Terminal are able to improve their prestige.