“Speaking about education, I want to begin with what we call a school of thought. This is deeply important because the foundation of our way of thinking greatly influences where we are heading,” Mumpuni stated here on Friday.
Speaking during the dissemination of the final research results of BRIN’s Education Research Center 2025, she explained that streams of thinking help children properly understand daily activities while also recognizing what they may and may not do.
“I often hear people say, ‘My child doesn’t need to excel in mathematics, as long as they know how to throw trash in the right place, respect elders, queue properly.’ This is character education, but all of it begins with the right school of thought,” she explained.
Mumpuni stressed that education is not merely about enabling individuals to survive economically, but also about nurturing socially righteous human beings.
“We are talking about righteousness not only at the individual level. In this country, individual righteousness is abundant, but how do we transform it into social righteousness so the nation can progress?” she asserted.
She warned that if children are raised solely with economic thinking, their skills will benefit only a small group while harming many others.
Therefore, she encouraged a shift in early childhood education paradigms, especially at the pre-school level, which she described as the starting point of the thinking machine.
“Education aims to enhance human quality. We must ensure that future generations receive education that continually elevates their humanity, not diminishes it,” she affirmed.
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