SCHOOL FUNCTION TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO STUDENTS

School is an institution or institutions who help cultivate the sciences, basic potentials of the students / learners. not only in the aspect of knowledge / intellectual, but also in aspects of personality, behavior, etiquette and manners are also taught in school. 

School will not only give the value of academic grades or rankings on students, the institute also has the function to provide services and to guide, educate and teach the learners to have properties / behavior better.

If you view the position of the family, an institution or an institution called school representing the parents or the family in educating children. That means the school is hands down the two after the family that works to develop / improve one's knowledge after the family. 

In his book Muhammad Ali (2009: 355) stated that the school functions include: 

1. Providing services to students to be able to acquire knowledge or skills the required academic lives 
2. Provide services to students in order to develop skills needed in the life 
3. Providing services to learners to be able to live together or cooperate with others 
4. Providing services to students in order to realize the ideals or actualize itself

MAIN FUNCTIONS BASIC EDUCATION

Education is a very important field in building a country. A developed country is certain to have the system and the quality of education is very good. This is because education affects the quality of human resources. In Indonesia the primary formal education is divided into several levels, namely primary education, secondary education and higher education. Affecting basic education and higher secondary education. Because the secondary and higher education is a continuation and sustainability of basic education. 

In his book, Muhammad Ali (2009: 33) states that there are two main functions of basic education, namely: 

1. Through basic education learners equipped with basic skills related to critical thinking, reading, writing, arithmetic, mastery of the basics to learn sainstek , and communication skills are a requirement of minimal ability in public life. 
2. Primary education provides the basics for education in the next education level. Following the success of education in secondary schools and colleges are influenced by success in basic education. 
3. Study of basic education in Indonesia normally found in elementary school (SD) and Islamic Elementary School (MI) becomes the basis for compulsory education to 12 years. Compulsory education program that was once six years, was changed to 9 years, and is now 12 years of a government policy to improve the quality of education.

Basic education in Indonesia normally found in elementary school (SD) and Islamic Elementary School (MI) becomes the basis for compulsory education to 12 years. Compulsory education program that was once six years, was changed to 9 years, and is now 12 years of a government policy to improve the quality of education.

Definition of Basic Education

Education is a conscious and deliberate effort to create an atmosphere of learning and the learning process so that learners are actively developing the potential for him to have the spiritual power of religion, self-control, personality, intelligence, character, and skills needed him and society. Education usually begins when a baby is born and lasts a lifetime. Education could have originated from before birth as is done by many people by playing music and reading to babies in the womb with the hope that he could teach their babies before birth. 

For some, the experience of everyday life is more meaningful than formal education. As Mark Twain said, 'I never let school interfere with my education.' A family member has a role of teaching is very profound, often more profound than they realize, even though the teaching of family members running unofficially.

FUNCTION OF EDUCATION 

According to Horton and Hunt, educational institutions related to real functions (manifest) the following: Preparing members of the public to make a living.  Developing individual talents for the sake of personal satisfaction and for the benefit of society.  Preserving culture.  Cultivating the skills necessary for participation in a democracy. Function latent educational institutions are as follows. Reduce parental control. Through education, school parents delegate tasks and responsibilities in educating children to school. Provide a means for insubordination. Schools have the potential to instill the value of dissent in society. This is reflected by the difference in views between the school and the community about something, such as sex education and open attitude. 

Maintaining social class systems. School education are expected to disseminate to their students to accept differences in prestige, privileges and status in society. Schools are also expected to be a channel mobility of students to a higher social status or at least not according to the status of their parents. 

Extend adolescence. School education can also slow down a person's adulthood because students are still economically dependent on their parents. 

According to David Popenoe, there are four kinds of educational function of which is as follows: Transmission (displacement) culture. Choosing and teaching social role. Ensuring social integration.  School teaches pattern personality. The source of social innovation  Importance of Education and Teachers In essence, education is very important to make the child's thinking is more developed. already there is of course the character of each child brought from birth but education makes the event extracting the character of the child. The need for help to motivate children to explore the potential and capabilities that exist in the child. The role of a teacher is very important. how not if a mother who has a child and the mother's own providing assistance maternal emotional learning will be stronger if his son had trouble. 

Education Teachers 

Teacher is not the transferor is a science but a teacher is a motivator, facilitator, to make children better understand the knowledge, to the teachers must increase performance and scholarship that will help your child or encourage children towards more advanced, making and information technology as a tool to seek knowledge. teaching materials for teachers themselves will be berpariasi thus facilitating children and motivate children can have a way that can make the child comfortable, innovative, creative, fun in learning. Government is very supportive in making teachers more professional in the government proved it provides scholarships for teacher education and to provide benefits