Freedom and Responsibility in Education
There is no democracy without freedom and responsibility. If democracy is body, freedom and responsibility is heart. Body without heart is nothing. There is no life, hence there is no benefit. Indonesia as sovereign country has freedom after free from Dutch colonialism eras. This sound god, but it not means automatically when state frees all society free from the problem of life. Freedom still should be part of struggle, because many citizens still have no fulfilling freedom in his/her life arenas.
Ignas Kleden talks that freedom is privilege of human being, other living being have no their real freedom because they are bounded to nature. They cannot decide what they want, because they are limited by powers beyond nature. The life of animal is always same from beginning; it bases one instinct without intellect. There is no ability for animal to build civilization like human. However, human life without freedom is alike animal life. They bounded by nature and system and they hard to move forward because have no ability to do that. Poor people or weak class usually has no right of freedom of economic, education, and health of his/her life. State still tends to give priority to high class and little respect to poor people. Hence, poor people have no responsibility and freedom to determine his/her owns ways without state guarantee to get his/her freedom right.
Freedom in education should be underlined; however it is impossible to build a good society and democratic country without good education. People should be free to get access of knowledge and develop his/her interesting point in supporting his/her life. Education is not for some class, but for all citizens. Both wealth and poor should responsible each other and lets other to get education as well. Wealth people should help the poor, and state should gives guarantee by clear policy that there is no unjust treatment for all citizens in getting basic education.
Learning from Paulo Freire and Romo Mangun about relationship between state and education will be seen that state still have many intervention in establish what kind of output in the society to support regime or to show superiority of state over society by giving fixed curriculum or inappropriate curriculum to support democratic culture. When state does to much intervention to the practice of education is also not good, states needs by society is just to make sure that people have just and guarantee to get education not to limited how education process is.
Ignas state that freedom is instrument to implement self determination. People can choose his/her self as subject of everything he/she involved with. He/she are responsible for him/herself without any intervention of others. What he/she feels good and important for his/her life is that what he/she chooses. Yet, everybody have self determination, thus in this sense one freedom not means diminish other freedom. Whereas to make sure that everyone can be free to voice what they want as implementation of the right of human which inherently free since he/she born, but dominant power or cultural condition become people constraint to realize the individual self determination.[]
