Intellectuals lack writing skills

“Intellectuals lack writing skills” is the title of the article that I have read. I think it is an informative and also enlightening article about how very dilapidated the education system is, they just give us receptive skills (listening and reading) and this system has consequence for the students with the result that do not have productive skills (speaking and writing). Ironically, in this country the people who have high academic title (masters, doctors, professors) are also good consumer, they just read many books which are written by foreigners in English as their bibliography in their own master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation. On the other hand, they should apply their ability to think and understand things, especially for the complicated ideas in their writing. I think there is a cause-effect connection in this case, intellectuals are not able to produce or publish their writing because of they are not equipped with writing skills when they were in school. Why I can say like that? My interpretation is going to be elaborated as follows.
Education as a means to educate people is a method to increase the standard intelligence of a nation, and it can influence on the way of the nation to take care of the citizenries and take along the nation to the bright future as a cultured or civilized nation. A nation can be called as a cultured or civilized nation when the citizenries have awareness to keep their civilization, and the history said that the present people are like now because of many texts that the past people had written; the texts are about ideas, dreams, curiosity, etc. The intellectuals wrote their esoteric knowledge based on their major education and everything in their mind which were not realized at that time, and the texts are the great legacy for us to develop our live into modernity right now.
Writing text is one of the important ways to keep the civilization, and when the author of the article says that the intellectuals of our country lack writing skill it means that the present education system in Indonesia has failed to provide students with writing skills and surely our civilization will face the blockage or perhaps it will stop. Indonesia has been renowned as a consumptive country, we import a large number of cars, motorcycles, hand phones, televisions from another country, and now we are also consumptive in textbook writing, and so what can we produce? From the article we know that in Indonesia, textbook writing is not a lucrative endeavour, it is the publisher and the bookstores rather than the writer that benefit financially.
We are going to see this problem from education system first, every single one of us has ever done national examination or another examination and we will always see the questions are multiple choice or filling in the blanks, it is quite common to see the questions which are like that. Indirectly, the students have been restricted because of that. They are only forced to find what the right is and actually they can find out the right answer there. They are not accustomed to expand their perspective or argument about anything because the important thing is the right question not the comprehension, but actually the case is important as a basic of writing. It will be taken along as long as they are in school, they will be hard to answer non multiple choice question even thought they have many ideas in their mind but they cannot put forward them into their answer or writing.
Like I say before that writing is a method to keep the civilization, so we have to grow up our awareness to write everything for the first time and try to write based on our major education. When we write, we can get many things such as improving our mind, giving information for people, and changing our status from consumptive into productive.
I am with the author’s point of view to see this problem; all of us are pioneer of innovation. And to do innovation, we have to change our academic system to make the students can have critical and creative thinking which is fundamental to developing an academic culture and we have to keep our awareness as an Indonesian, we have to put our best effort into everything we do to change Indonesia and make our nation be cultured, and one of the method is writing.