Using Community as Teaching Resources

Now days, most of our people’s paradigm about education has been changed. They look at that the resources of teaching are not only at the formal school. Home schooling is one of the methods of teaching which people can get education at home. School alternative such as truba Jorong (Dik Doang’s school) which using nature as teaching resource. The problem is only certain people can get good education since it needs lots of money. Even there is free of charge education from government, but it could not overcome education’s problem.

So how can we have good quality of human resources if education is not available?
Education is not only at formal school. We can get education around us by using community as teaching resources.

We have small community called family. Family is the first place that we get education. We learn how to make contact with other for the first time. Remember, when we first time we could walked, when we said mom, dad.

When we grew up, we joined with school community. At school, we got formal education to get knowledge and skill. We have extended our relation from family to our peer group. We learned other people outside our family.

When we got job, we are professional community. We learn how is management, how to build professional relationship. In this community we get education without payment fee but we get education and get pay.

The advantages by using community as teaching resource are:
Free of charge. You do not need to pay anything. The most important thing you have to do is you should pay attention around you and give meaning every moment you meet. And realize how the moment is influenced your life?

Unlimited time and space. We can get education whenever we want, wherever we are.
At terminal, market, on the way or here tonight.

We are as resource for others. We are not aware that People have been learned something from us. Tonight, I have been learned from Jiway, how to deliver table topic Master……and I know that Jiway does not realize this.

Fellow toastmaster and distinguished guest,
Stephen covey said that” one of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationship with others are fundamentally a reflection our relationship with ourselves.