“THE IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER EDUCATION CONTRIBUTING STUDENT’S PERSONALITY

DEVELOPMENT”

Asalamualaikum Wr. Wb.

Honorable juries, honorable committees of this speech competition, ladies and gentleman good
morning.

First of all, let’s praise to Allah SWT. the lord of the universe that guided us from dark period go in the
direction of bright period because of islam’s glow. In this good
occasion, I’m Nurul Tri Ariyanti, from SMP 1 Kalibaru would like to deliver my speech about “The
Importance of Character Education Contributing Student’s Personality Development”

Ladies and gentleman,

Character is the basic education in our life. We gather at home for the first time from our mother from a
baby until become like this. We learn how to live well, how should we speak, and respect each other.
And now at school, we also learn about some characters in education. Character education is so
important to develop student’s personality. Why do I say like that?

Well ladies and gentleman,

The reason is that character’s building integrated in every subject at school. Student are not only learn
about the theory itself. But, also they will realize some characters from that subject. So, in line with this,
it will grow up some characters building to be a good personality. Then, this student will become a wise
educated great person who have a brave heart.

Ladies and gentleman,

I will let you know some kind of characters building at school. Well, first in some English daily
conversation, student will learn some expressions, that will be applied in life. We will use it not only a
theory, but also keep in mind deep into our heart how to communicate each other with politeness
respectful, how to give our sympathy to someone who had an accident.
Second, in Islamic religion education at school. We not only learn about how to pray well to Allah SWT.
But, we also learn about excellent attitude which the characters of Prophet Muhammad SAW. It can we
applied in life. Third, in Mathematic we have to be patient to solve the problem.

In other words, in science, through observation activities, student will learn how to be tidy and neat
person. There are many more example of some characters education at school. Student will find them
such religious, diligent, honestly, and etc.

Ladies and gentleman,

As I said before that characters is the basic role education in our live. With integrated character building
at school, student will get not only knowledge as theory. But also they will get something useful how to
learn and find out a way from a misery of life. Then, they will have a great personality to be a great
person.

Great personality also the reflection of great country. It can be come true, if all of people in our country
have a great personality. Yeah, all of people in our country. It seem so hard to do isn’t it? But I think, it is
very easy if we always effort to repair our personality and our character.

Well ladies and gentleman,

From my speech, we can get the result. Guys, we are the young generation. So, our characters showing
characters of our country in the future. And, we will be the leader tomorrow.

Do you feel that you have a great personality?

Something that we have to do,

Repair our characters,

Repair our personality,

Cause, GREAT PERSONALITY, GREAT COUNTRY

Well, that’s all from me. I’m sorry if there are some mistakes. Thanks for your attention.

Wasalamualaikum Wr. Wb.

The honorable, my teacher, and my beloved friends, good morning. First of all, thank you for having me
here in this fine and joyfull morning. I hope we are all in the good health. Today I would convey in the
importance of education in my short speech. On many occasions we hear the term education, but what
is education? How importance is education to our country and ourselves as students?

Well, to answer the first question, education refers to a process by which a person develops their skills,
attitudes and values. Many times we associate this term with the school, however we must also take into
account that education is not exclusive to this institution, but also it is up to the family and even to the
friendships with whom we live together day by day, that is why we can say that “men can get to improve
each other.” There is a phrase that I like very much and I find it very true. If the people of a country care
about the education, it shows that they love their nation. It is said that in order for a country to prosper
it needs education, but why?

The honorable audiences, we study not to go to the graduation ceremony and hang our picture on the
wall of our house, much less to show off to our friends. we study to practice and to acquire knowledge,
and those two then will prepare us to the real life situation. Education brings us too many benefits, such
as confidence in ourselves, freedom to decide, conscience as a whole, help us to improve ourselves, to
feel fulfilled, to feel that we are something in life and that we have an end for which to live. But this is
not the only satisfaction that education gives us, but with it we achieve a better quality of life; When we
want to buy a dress, shoes, food, or anything else, we need a work, which currently is not so easy to find
and less if we don’t have an adequate education.

It is said that the future of our country is in the hands of the children and as the children in this country,
we must try hard to achieve that. That is why today I invite all the audiences here to reflect on the
importance of education. We have to take advantage of this chance to be able to go to school to study.
We must appreciate the effort that our parents make to send us to school, and think that there are many
children who would like to study but for some reason they can not do it.

Finally, ask ourselves: without effort and education, how do we want to improve ourselves? How do we
want to live better? In short, how do we want a better country?. Therefore, education is an important
part of our life as well as an essential part to develop a better future for the country. So this is the end of
my speech today. I hope some of the points that I have conveyed today make us more appreciate of our
chance to be able to have the education at school and make us study more dilligently for both our
country’s and our own future. I thank you for the attention. Good day.

Indonesian

1kasih telah bersama saya di sini pagi yang menyenangkan ini. Saya harap kita semua dalam keadaan
sehat. Hari ini saya akan menyampaikan pentingnya pendidikan dalam pidato singkat saya. Pada banyak
kesempatan kita mendengar istilah pendidikan, tapi apa itu pendidikan? Seberapa penting pendidikan
bagi negara kita dan diri kita sendiri sebagai siswa?

Nah, untuk menjawab pertanyaan pertama, pendidikan mengacu pada proses dimana seseorang
mengembangkan keterampilan, sikap dan nilai mereka. Seringkali kita menghubungkan istilah ini dengan
sekolah, namun kita juga harus tahu bahwa pendidikan tidak hanya berhubungan dengan institusi ini,
tetapi juga didapati di keluarga dan bahkan dalam persahabatan atau dengan orang yang kita temui dari
hari ke hari. Itulah mengapa pepatah mengatakan bahwa “manusia bisa saling mengajari.” Itu ungkapan
yang sangat saya sukai dan saya merasa itu sangat benar. Jika orang-orang peduli terhadap pendidikan
mereka, hal itu menunjukkan bahwa mereka mencintai bangsanya. Dikatakan bahwa agar suatu negara
dapat makmur dibutuhkan pendidikan, tapi kenapa?

Hadirin yang terhormat, kita belajar di sekolah tidak hanya untuk pergi ke upacara wisuda dan
menggantungkan gambar wisuda kita di dinding rumah kita, apalagi untuk menyombingkan diri kepada
teman-teman kita. Kita belajar untuk berlatih dan memperoleh pengetahuan, dan kedua hal itu
kemudian dapat mempersiapkan kita dalam menghadapi situasi di kehidupan nyata. Pendidikan
memberikan kita banyak manfaat, seperti meningkatkan kepercayaan pada diri, memberi kebebasan
untuk memilih dan memutuskan, memiliki hati nurani yang utuh, membantu kita memperbaiki diri,
merasa punya arti, merasa bahwa kita berbuat sesuatu dalam kehidupan dan bahwa kita memiliki tujuan
untuk hidup. Tapi dari semua itu pun, masih banyak manfaat yang diberikan pendidikan kepada kita,
manfaat lainnya adalah kita dapat mencapai kualitas kehidupan yang lebih baik; Bila kita ingin membeli
baju, sepatu, makanan, atau apapun, kita membutuhkan sebuah pekerjaan, dimana pekerjaan sekarang
ini sulit dicari jika kita tidak memiliki pendidikan yang memadai.

Teman-teman saya, masa depan negara kita ada di tangan anak-anak bangsa, dan sebagai anak-anak
bangsa di negeri ini, kita harus berusaha keras untuk mencapai masa depan itu. Itulah sebabnya hari ini
saya mengajak semua hadirin disini untuk merenungkan pentingnya pendidikan. Kita harus
memanfaatkan kesempatan bisa pergi ke sekolah untuk belajar. Kita juga harus menghargai usaha yang
dilakukan orang tua kita untuk menyekolahkan kita, karena ada banyak anak yang ingin sekolah tapi
karena suatu hal mereka tidak dapat melakukannya.

Terakhir, tanyakan pada diri sendiri: tanpa usaha dan pendidikan, bagaimana kita ingin memperbaiki diri?
Bagaimana kita ingin hidup lebih baik? bagaimana kita menginginkan negara yang lebih baik?. Oleh
karena itu, pendidikan merupakan bagian penting dari kehidupan kita sekaligus merupakan bagian
penting untuk mengembangkan masa depan yang lebih baik bagi negara. Maka inilah akhir dari pidato
saya hari ini. Saya harap beberapa poin yang telah saya sampaikan hari ini membuat kita lebih
menghargai kesempatan kita untuk dapat memiliki pendidikan di sekolah dan membuat kita belajar lebih
giat untuk masa depan negara kita dan masa depan kita sendiri. Terima kasih atas perhatiannya. Selamat
pagi.