This is my second meeting in Toastmasters, at this time we will talk about the Agent of Change with the word "Action". Agent of change as a word sounds mainstream in my head, I've been in some project in my lecture period, especially as an organizer, i was learning how my university organization's culture built and grew the value for three years without leaving the organization and this meeting theme give me the flashback and made me exited to preparing the script to share then.
As a college student at Muhammadiyah University, it was a valuable experience for me. The dynamics of this revolutionary university taught me a lot about the organizational values, which brought a strong historical concern to build our values.
We believe in the big five values of college students :
- Agent of Change
- Iron Stock
- Social Control
- Moral Force
- Guardian of Values
Even I don't even know where this five college student came from, because I can't find it in journ,als, but you can find it in googles without telling the source, but I knew it pointed to the historical in Indonesia during the revolutionary phenomenon in 1998, this phenomenon always reminds us to be a critical partner for the government. And let's take a note for the first value, Agent of Change.
Agent of change for me was pointed to someone that have the privilege to get an education and believes in spreading the impact with his knowledge, because we will not know how far we can upgrade without doing and practicing, then our orientation after getting these skills is the impact to help and grow the other, why then? Because not all of us can get an education for maybe an access. Financial problem, facility problem, or anything else.
Over 189 million Indonesians, or more than 70% of the adult population, have not completed senior high school or higher education. Approximately 34 million did not finish elementary school. Around 155 million only completed elementary or junior high school, without progressing to senior high school. This data reflects a stark reality: only a small portion of Indonesians complete higher levels of education. Economic hardship, limited geographical access, and social inequality remain key barriers to continued education across the nation.
So, let's get a good angle on this problem, and take action to get more serious and focused to utilize our education process, because we are privileged for this, let's keep the good values for every career path we are living now, and change this reality into the ideal standard.
Let me share the quote from Mark Twain, "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why". So let's be the change with our actions.
