The Importance of Character Education to Improve the Quality of Education

Abstract

Character education can improve the quality of Education in Indonesia. Indonesia requires human resources in sufficient quantity and quality as the primary support for development. To fulfill these human resources, Education has a significant role. Character education aims to improve the quality of implementation and educational outcomes in schools that lead to the achievement of the formation of character and noble character of students as a whole. Therefore, the author wants to know how to implement an effective character education in learning to produce quality graduates. The author uses a literature study research method in writing this article to describe this. A literature study is a type of research that answers existing problems by reviewing the appropriate literature to solve these problems. The literature used is in the form of books, national and international journals, and reviews of relevant mass media. The results obtained using the literature study method show that character education is proven to be able to improve the quality of Education, as evidenced by the increase in the rate of human resources. Because various problems in a country will be able to be overcome if the human resources are good. Without attention to improving the quality of human resources, it will make all aspects of life run poorly.