[Questions] To all Higher Education Students and Future Students

What are your motives of going to higher education program? *

If any, what are your short term goals and what are you long term goals by engaging in a higher education program?

* Is it more economic growth and vocational motives (e.g.
to give bigger chances of getting the desired job with high salary, etc) or more
on personal development motives (e.g. development of critical thinking,
self-evaluations, etc) ?

Just want to know what really matters to you the more. Is it economic reason or personal development?

I, myself, found it difficult to answer this question. What about you?

Democratization

"Republic of Indonesia now found himself in new phase of creating democratic society."

This is often heard form delegations or representatives of Indonesia’s allied countries when visiting this tropical country.

John Adams mentioned that in order to create a socially democratic communities it requires number of well educated people with three combining characteristics: virtue (good quality in morality), knowledge, and wisdom (cited in Walker, 2006). *

In Indonesia’s context, do we have those requirements?
If we had them, then why do we still have such aggressive and destructive behaviors among different groups of ethnicity, religious belief, sex, and socioeconomic status?
Then, what if it is true that we do not qualify** for transforming into democratic society but still persist in going to that direction? Are there any further destructive impacts? Democratization turns into DemoCRAZYation?

* Walker, Melanie. 2006. Higher Education Pedagogies. New York: The
Society for Research into Higher Education
** Only 3% of 220 million of
Indonesian have experienced and graduated from higher education. (check data at
Sampoerna Foundation’s website) And among those small number, how many people still inherit admirable quality and understand local wisdom?

[update] B2B: back to business

This web log is entitled ".....The Days Of My Life.....", but as anybody may well noticed, I have not update any news and information since last February.

Sorry for not sharing many information, and for not implementing information or knowledge sharing for such a long time.

Hopefully I can submit information routinely from this day and on and on and on.