Low Intereset in Education in Adolescents

Education is the key to the progress of a nation and is an issue that is always interesting to study. The definition of education according to the Law on National Education System no. 20 of 2003, is as a conscious and planned effort to create a learning atmosphere and learning process in such a way that students can develop their potential actively in order to have self-control, intelligence, skills in society, religious spiritual strength, personality and noble morals. The Big Dictionary Indonesian explains that education comes from the word "educate" and gets affixes in the form of the prefix 'pe' and the suffix 'an' which means the process or way of doing education. So the definition of education according to language is a change in the behavior and attitude of a person or group of people in an effort to mature humans through training and teaching. 

 

Descriptive education  

 

Education is defined as a series of processes in which a person develops abilities, attitudes, and other forms of behavior that are valuable or useful in society. Education is also defined as a social process in which people or children are subjected to an environment that is deliberately chosen and controlled (for example by teachers in schools) so that they acquire optimal social skills and individual development

Factors Causing Low Interest in Education in Adolescents  

• Adolescent apathy

 From several studies conducted in several regions, factors were found to be the cause of low interest in education in adolescents, one of which is the absence of interest and desire to continue education because education is considered to require a long time and large funds, Therefore, usually after feeling enough at a certain level of education, a person will choose to work in order to make money for himself or for his family.

 As an example of the case with Irwandi Buamona. Interviews with informants explained that they would rather not go to college because they had to go to high school alone. Preferring to directly bring in cash through dad's business, school people are also looking for jobs to make money (Interview, May 22, 2021). A similar case also happened to Mahmud's informant, who said that not continuing to attend college on the grounds for him it was just an abuse of time, on the grounds that his mother and father did not forbid not to go to college. In another study, there was also an opinion that there was no guarantee that there would be a better job if he continued to pursue higher education.

• Internal Factors
• No inspiration and desire to learn

              Inspiration is something that appears in humans inspiration as a human work that has received a response to encourage the spirit of inspiration in a certain relationship to be moved in doing something because it is necessary to achieve the ideal goal. Inspiration plays an important role in the learning system to follow and encourage the learners to learn.

Students should carry out basic learning happily because of the inspiration of each other.

 

• Lack of awareness/motivation towards the importance of higher education.