Education to Develop Social Awareness

The title of the article is “Education to Develop Social Awareness”, this article is an explanation about social problem that can be solved with education. When I read this article for the first time, I am very interested because the author try to combain the social problems of our country with the two theories beyond them that have contradiction among them but they can help the government to solve the problems. The theory which is explained is about the dichotomy of social sciences versus non-social sciences, and I do agree that be they social scientists or non-social scientists, have two kinds of responsibility, namely academic responsibility and social responsibility.
And after I read this article, I have different opinion with the author. Social problems such as corruption, collusion, nepotism, pornography, street children, and unemployment may have been our country’s face and they are never solved during 66 years after independence and 6 presidents can not alleviate them.
When our country has many social problems, we need to discover what the solution is. And the social scientists have capability to do that because they are agents to offer new principles built up through transparent discussions, polemics, open debate and dialogs, after that they can do academic analysis to solve and find new lenses to approach the problems which are anomalous, strange, or even nonsensical.
The scientists can make the public reconsider and reformulate their focus on the issues, and the public will have same paradigm with the scientists and may have different paradigm with the bureaucrats and even will be social chaos and upheavals among them.
Although the scientists have function to control natural phenomena but we have to know that the government has power that could directly control social problems in his way. All analysis, ideas, vision, and alternative solutions will collide with the government policy. There is nothing that we can do, and the alternative solutions that we offer will be a trash which is not needed and the fate of our country will never change and we will let the society struggle to the utmost for prosperity by them.
I think the bureaucrats and the intellectual critics are not wrong, even though a theory said that the conflicts between them are due to the fact that bureaucrats fail to share the body of knowledge essential for understanding the metaphors used by the critics. I see from the other side that the critics might not have capability to bring into reality what they say, because there are many factors and defiance’s which can make they change the prow, we now that there are many personage who are very audacious to oppose with the government but when he is in part of the government, what he said before can not be realized.
Because of that, I think social awareness is not the only one important thing to change our country but our awareness has to be gone along with our effort to realize, because success is not on your mind but in reality, no matter how good your solutions are, they will be unworthwhile if you do not do.