School Creed, a Potential Strategy to Shape Character Building for Better Education Quality in Indonesia

Abstract

The quality of a nation is determined by its young generation character. A good system of education upholding character education may lead to this objective. However, creating character generation is not an easy work. It needs strong commitment, hard efforts, inclusive cooperation, consistent actions, sustainable policy and smart innovations. The writer sees school creed as potential initiative of a grand innovation to shape character students. Some authors in education and psychology has published a numerous articles about the strength of school creed to improve students' learning motivation. A number of countries, in developed countries particularly, has implemented it in their learning practices. Those facts inspire the writer to revisit, to deeply explore and to analyze the potential power of school creed to his educational setting in a developing country. This writing tries to elaborate on how a school creed to be created, and on how school creed can work optimally in Indonesia.