Islamic
concept of the generation of superior, is a group of people who were
born more or less under the circumstances and conditions the same
period, involved a conscious and earnest in education and
familiarization activities based on the teachings of Islam itself, which
it eventually become a quality human being, able to act as the Caliph of Allah on earth and also a servant of the righteous, for the happiness of living in this world and hereafter. In
the context of Indonesia, the characteristics and criteria for
excellence is a generation who believe in God the Almighty, devoted,
berakhlaq mu-lia, intelligent, skilled or unskilled in a particular
field, and finally able to be responsible for the realization of
baldatun thayyibatun Rabbun Ghafuur wa. In
the midst of the reform era of openness and freedom today, the momentum
realization of young people who excel in Indonesia wide open,
considering there is no longer a public policy that kat be inhibiting. But does not mean, everything would happen smoothly idealized. Therefore,
the era of openness and freedom of the consequences of containing the
competition, both internally between individuals or different groups of
society that exist in Indonesia, as well as externally with the
advancement of education and culture of other nations on behalf of and
as a result of the globalization . Anyone
who is ultimately able to survive let alone achieve victory in the free
competition, they're the generation that really excels. Meanwhile,
the still wallowing in against his unconscious what should be done in
today's global era, be they barren generation who will age out of
circulation.
Between education and culture, one aspect of it can be sorted or distinguished, but it is essentially impossible to separate. Education
is a cultural phenomenon, thus the title of a book in the field of
education is quite popular in the seventies in the last century. Within
the scope of a nation, such as what form of educational activity, which
was held across the region the country, then that's commensurate with
the level of culture was evolved and successfully achieved. Therefore,
through the institutions and activities pendidikanlah culture of a
nation gets the channel to be transmitted by the older generation to the
next generation, connect-connect in such a way that preserved its
sustainability. Meanwhile,
in today's modern era, preserving cultural meaning only if it also
developed according to demands of the times through education. If
there are steps to promote education in a nation, which has really
happened is a sign that the culture of the nation is experiencing a
movement of progress.
In the perspective of Islamic teachings, there is a correlation between fthrah, culture and education. Of Islam. Nature
are, is the potential basis of a human child is bestowed by God
Almighty, and because his pants are innate at birth into the world. Like seed plants, need your nature are conducive to the success of a vehicle for growth and development. The
more ba-ik rides are available and serves as a supporter of its
existence, the more surely nice development process and the results of
such nature are. Vehicle for the development of human nature are, it was the culture (Islam). While
Islamic education, an effort or steps to improve the nature are
(potential) that, in order to achieve the ideal goal aspired. Means,
the development of human nature are carried out by the educational
activities of the so-called Islamic education, and the success rate is
influenced or even determined by the condition and progress or
however-durnya Islamic culture that exist in certain areas.
In
the Islamic perspective and keindonesiaan, how to realize the
generation of superior air-base of education and culture, among the
strategic measures taken is selaiknya keep on pushing and seek the
implementation of institutional and educational activities, are ready to
take the students to master science and technology completely on the one hand, and has the robustness of faith and taqwa to Allah swt on the other. Institutions
and educational activities as defined, for example, could be in the
form of boarding school, ma-drasah, or Islamic schools, from
kindergarten level to university, accompanied by harmonious cooperation
with Islamic education in non formal childcare in the family environment
, positive utilization of mass media, organizing informal gatherings majlis, religious private lessons, and so forth.
In
accordance with the realities of life that continues to move further
forward, the integration of third-je-nis Islamic educational
institutions (schools, madrasas, schools), seems to be the best
alternative. For
example, professionally managed boarding institution, in which there
are madrassas, Islamic schools or even colleges, in which learners
acquire an educational environment that really guarantee the robustness
of faith and taqwa to Allah swt, in addition to mastery of science and
technology. Seems
interesting to note the example, there is a boarding school which was
originally known in the teaching of traditional Islamic sciences and
amaliah. With his passion to achieve the quality of Islamic education, eventually organizing High School (SMA). Appropriate
base kepesantrenannya, learners at the school was certainly well
mastered Arabic, memorize a thousand Alfiyah nazhaman book that temple,
and skilled reading yellow book. Through
the learning system in a dormitory complex that was a neat layout with
discipline in the conduct rules, it turns out the students also
master-sa baha English, mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and
other general science in the standard SMA best in the area.