"Pendidikan nasional menurut paham Taman Siswa ialah pendidikan yang beralaskan garis-hidup dari bangsanya (cultureel-nationaal) dan ditujukan untuk keperluan peri-kehidupan (maatschappelijk) yang dapat mengangkat derajat negara dan rakyatnya, agar dapat bekerja bersama-sama dengan lain-lain bangsa untuk kemuliaan segenap manusia di seluruh dunia." (Ki Hadjar Dewantara, 1930)
from the back cover: "...Pengajaran harus bersifat kebangsaan... . Kalau pengajaran bagi anak-anak tak mungkin mempunyai rasa cinta bangsa dan makin lama terpisah dari bangsanya, kemudian barangkali menjadi lawan kita... . Pengajaran Nasional itulah hak dan kewajiban kita...".
In my mind rose a misty picture of a little girl in a floral dress. As for her face: nothing. I could only hope that she had been pretty. I sat overcome. What a procession of developments in one day! Only that morning I had left Madiun; at midday I was wobbling on a buggy past an ocean of rice fields; tonight, suddenly, I had been renamed by my parents and handed a wife. Thus begins Sastroda…
The Saga of Siti Mariah is a window into the workings of the Cultuurstelsel or "Forced Cultivation" system imposed in the Dutch East Indies from 1830 until 1870. In this book's pages, the lives of Dutch sugar barons, indigenous elite, European officials, and Chinese middlemen who were enriched under the system intersect with those of Javanese peasants who suffered under its yoke and the Javanes…
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