April 1, 2009 at the cafeteria of
Magister Study Pembangunan,
Pasca Sarjana, FISIP, USU, Medan
It was at the very early morning when I was with two of my best friends, Prof Marlon Sihombing and Prof Baddarudin Rangkuti. We just made a friendly chatting about how to stimulate university students to enjoy the lessons, research and be skillful for the learned lessons. As we know now the spirit of learning among our students are still far away of the needs they have to possess. There are many reasons about this matter, the economic matter, the hi-tech development, the short knowledge to face the future and so on. As the expert of sociology, Prof Baddaruddin told us that we have to know that our students still have the doubt what are they going to do and to be. The pattern of life is now so complex, until we can see now almost young men or women do not have strong determination about life pattern which they should take. More often the ideas and inspirations came from the life-style directed by some movies on television and also the up to date trend done by some celebs. In a world of leading competition to attract the society to do, to buy and to have, it will be a part of our participation as educators to save the mind of our youth. We cannot let them enjoying all offered by the multi-media entertainment, we must also give them things needed to bring for their future. But the problem now as it was told by the expert of state administration, Prof Marlon, how to attract their interests? Can we win this different level competition ? of course the things offered by the television for instance will be more effective and interesting, so what should we do then?
Having cups of black coffee, served by the MSP adm, I just tried to tell them one not funny story about love. In a love story of a man and a woman, usually we see that a woman tends to ask more that a man, and it’s often done by asking many many times the similar questions such as..”Honey, Do you love me…?”, ..”Don’t you miss me today?”, “What do you feel about me now, dear..?”. The man usually does not give direct response, even, sometimes get insulted and angry because of such silly questions, It might be because in men perspective, his attendance beside or near his lover or the woman actually must have shown her how much the man loves his lover… Once I have ever asked a man about this, you know what his answer was… actually in this life we don’t need the uttering wether we love or not, what we want is just the attitude or behavior to love or not to love, simply it might be often found in a banner the saying such as NATO, No Action Talk Only is Useless. I know that our this morning conversation is simple but I believe more that as the experts, both of my best friends are having new ideas in their head now because I saw them smiling while finishing the last drop of their coffee and starting to do our job in our own departments. I my self still remember my past love-story how I loved and to be loved….hmm just smile. Is love also an educational stimulating?.. American people said “Big deal!" Have a nice day fellows…
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