Dilemma Pendidikan Indonesia (Rhenald Kasali)

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Ditulis oleh: Prof. Rhenald Kasali (Guru Besar FE UI)

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LIMA belas tahun lalu saya pernah mengajukan protes pada guru sebuah sekolah tempat anak saya belajar di Amerika Serikat. Masalahnya, karangan berbahasa Inggris yang ditulis anak saya seadanya itu telah diberi nilai E (excellence) yang artinya sempurna, hebat, bagus sekali. Padahal dia baru saja tiba di Amerika dan baru mulai belajar bahasa.

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youranonnews:

How to hack a traffic camera
+ camera reads license plates+ text of license plate is stored in a database+ cover your license plate w/ special text that hacks databases (“drop database table”)+ … so if the camera reads this guy’s license plate and tried to add the text to the database, there’s a chance the database gets deleted (“dropped”) if it’s not properly protected
+ ha! 

youranonnews:

How to hack a traffic camera

+ camera reads license plates
+ text of license plate is stored in a database
+ cover your license plate w/ special text that hacks databases (“drop database table”)
+ … so if the camera reads this guy’s license plate and tried to add the text to the database, there’s a chance the database gets deleted (“dropped”) if it’s not properly protected

+ ha! 

Don&#8217;t worry too much&#8230;

Don’t worry too much…

(via yuanwianda)

And I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means I survived.

Chris Cleave (via cosive)

(Source: grovegrove, via quote-book)

Many children grow superstitious, and think that you cannot carry except in tens; or that it is wrong to carry in anything but tens. The use of algebra is to free them from bondage to all this superstitious nonsense, and help them to see that the numbers would come just as right if we carried in eights or twelves or twenties. It is a little difficult to do this at first, because we are not accustomed to it; but algebra helps to get over our stiffness and set habits and to do numeration on any basis that suits the matter we are dealing with.

Mary Everest Boole, Philosophy And Fun Of Algebra, London: C. W. Daniel, LTD, 1909

(Source: cut-the-knot.org)

A German merchant of the 15th century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.

John Allen Paulos, Beyond Numeracy.

(Source: cut-the-knot.org)

If you tell the truth, people are not happy; if beaten with a stick, dogs are not happy.

Bhutanese proverb

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

by Sarah Orne Jewett (taken from QOTD list of 3rd September 2007)

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx