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Sekolah Papua (School of Papua)

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    SCHOOL OF PAPUA
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    I need to know everything about the
    world I live in.
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    I know everything about my environment.
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    The sea, the fish, how to catch the fish.
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    I followed my mother to our agricultural
    land.
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    I know what to grow, how to
    nurture the plants.
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    I followed her and I was happy.
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    So what was so hard? I came back from
    school.
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    I didn't have to do homework.
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    Teachers who lived in colonial times, we
    had a different approach to teaching.
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    How to teach kids to write and read – it's
    quite different from how they do it now.
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    Now they mostly do it by forcing the
    pupils.
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    Why do we have to give homework to the
    children?
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    We have to provide them time to play. So
    they have time to play, and sleep well
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    without heavy burdens on their shoulders.
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    Otherwise, even when they want to play,
    they remember they have homework.
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    They ask their mothers but they don't
    understand.
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    They ask their brothers, and it's nearly
    dark
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    and tomorrow the homework is due.
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    So, there's a limitation to the world they
    need to build because of homework.
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    Too much fear results in stupidity.
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    Too much fear results in weak thinking.
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    Because some kids can only see to
    understand.
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    Others hear to understand.
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    And other kids do it and understand.
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    There are many things that we need to
    comprehend in this case.
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    They may be looking outside but they are
    still listening.
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    Now, they trap students inside buildings.
    Then, the teachers become angry
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    shouting, "What are you looking at?"
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    We are just wasting time by interjecting.
    In class we have very limited time.
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    Now we have this "superior class".
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    So we separate kids by those who learn
    fast and those who don’t.
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    The ones who already know a bit,
    let other teachers teach them.
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    So, we don't simply teach, but consider
    all aspects.
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    And for coaching, the teacher needs to
    really get close to the kids.
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    Hold their hands.
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    We can come and write something down
    and ask students
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    to repeat this by themselves.
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    In several meetings with parents, I said,
    “You are limiting these kids just because
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    of an issue with uniforms”.
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    “If their uniforms are wet they can just
    come in T-shirts.
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    If their shoes get stolen or broken send
    them in sandals or even barefoot.”
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    “The important thing is that the child has the
    eagerness to study.”
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    If we compare the era of Dutch
    colonisation to today
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    there is a big difference.
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    The colonialists didn't just build
    schools, they started by doing research
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    in the coastal areas, mountains, valleys,
    upstream.
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    After that, they decided on the kind of
    education model to use.
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    They created readings where the stories
    were all based on local stories
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    so the readings for children were based
    on the places where they've been living
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    from youth to maturity.
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    The children understood these stories
    because they knew them.
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    They have pigs, they have fire on their
    farmland and in their houses.
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    On the beach they usually use fire to
    cook fish.
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    If you look at how they build schools now
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    it's too restrictive and traps kids so
    they can't freely enjoy the scenery
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    the environment, which was created by
    God.
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    In the old days, they built school walls
    only as high as a small child's shoulders.
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    So we can see birds fly, clouds, rain, so
    it reduces the boredom of the lesson.
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    In my school years, a day must be filled
    with singing and drawing.
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    Usually in the late hours we will sing.
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    So this learning was based on stimulating
    ideas.
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    We discussed things by drawing them.
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    The reason I say this is a Papuan school
    built in Indonesia
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    is because the majority of students
    here are Papuans.
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    There are some differences in the way
    that Papuans and non-Papuans
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    respond to lessons.
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    If we teach one plus one, immediately the
    non-Papuan kids will have the answer two.
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    But the Papuan will examine this lesson
    carefully.
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    One plus one, why does it become two?
    That's not because they are stupid.
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    No. But because they are very thorough.
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    That's why the Dutch teachers would not
    mix the Papuan kids with non-Papuans
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    in one classroom.
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    It's not discrimination, no.
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    But if you put the Papuan kids with
    Indonesian kids in one class
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    the Indonesians will surpass them.
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    Indonesian parents will support their
    kids to learn at home.
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    But the Papuans, even if their parents are
    high-ranking officials
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    they are not used to teaching their
    kids at home.
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    So, for the teachers this is a big burden.
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    That's why the Papuan kids need more time
    and a slower pace.
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    It's not because they are stupid.
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    But it's like clapping with one hand,
    it doesn't make a sound.
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    But if parents and teachers are committed
    together, they can clap with two hands.
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    It will work and benefit the children.
Title:
Sekolah Papua (School of Papua)
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