Kreativitas Intelektual Anak Bangsa

The title of the article is “Kreativitas Intelektual Anak Bangsa”. It is an informative article and gives the reader motivation to expand their creativity. The author explains many data to support his thesis and emphasize that creativity level of the Indonesian children who are 10 years old is low than other children with same age in different country -The Philippines, USA, England, Germany, India, People’s Republic of China, Cameroon, Zulu, Indonesia- (Jellen and Urban). Actually, the contents of the article tease us as mahasiswa by insinuation and allusion. He says that intellect refers to human’s ability to use their logical reasoning but practically it is often forgotten and not developed with the result that the existence is vague and make the people are not intellect (people who have critical thinking). Why I can say that the article teases us? In Indonesia, mahasiswa have high level in society and have many sobriquets say for example agent of change, young intellectual, etc but the condition of our country is same, still poor, irregularity, unemployment, careless, corrupt, unfair, etc. We can assume that we as a mahasiswa do not have intellectuality to produce the critical thinking to wake up our country into prosperity.
Mahasiswa have been forced to use their critical thinking when they write minithesis to obtain dokterandus degree and the result of this activity is mahasiswa can mix they critical thinking with creativity to produce a fresh concept of something. The methods to reach critical thinking are formulating an issue, looking for the reason, showing the exact source, relevant with main idea, looking for the alternative solving problem, having opened minded. The sixth are implicated in education life in university. The article focuses on creativity of mahasiswa in modern era because there are many accusations that say mahasiswa in this era are low creativity, and creativity in this context is creativity in literacy. Because, if we want to make Indonesia be an advance country, we have to increase our reading fondness and produce or publish book, newspaper, magazine, etc.
Regarding critical thinking and creativity in literacy, we can use writing as a means to train our critical thinking and creativity. Because when we are writing, we will be forced to make application of what our ideas are into connecting sentence structure in our writing. We used our critical thinking to see a problem and find out the problem solving and use our creativity to pour them into the text.
As a mahasiswa who have intellectuality, we have responsibility to ourselves to be queath our ideas about science, technology for the sake of prosperity. And if we do it, it is not less creative, monumental, heroic, and patriotic than proclamation. We have to prove that we have awareness to our country.
I do agree with the author’s argument in this article. Hopefully, this article can whip us as a young generation to be creative and productive especially in literacy in order to chase a way stupidity and poverty in Indonesia. Mahasiswa have to give their best effort into everything they do in their major and do not let your county down because the future of Indonesia depends on you “mahasiswa”, it depends on what your contribution to your country.