The purpose of character education is the realization of essential unity

The purpose of character education is the realization of essential unity
Educational value expert Darmiyati Zuchdi, defines character as a set of traits that are always admired as signs of goodness, policy, and moral maturity. It was further said that the purpose of character education is to teach certain traditional values, values that are widely accepted as the foundation of good and responsible behavior. It is intended to foster respect, responsibility, compassion, discipline, loyalty, courage, tolerance, openness, work ethic and love for God in a person. Judging from the purpose of character education, which is planting a set of values, character education and value education are basically the same. So, character education is basically education of values, that is, the inculcation of values so that they become a character in a person and therefore color a person's personality or character.
Further understanding of character according to Adisusilo (on “Attitude of College of Education Science Students”) is a set of values that have become a habit of life so that it becomes a permanent trait in someone, for example hard work, never give up, honest, simple, and others. With that character the quality of a person is measured. While the goal of character education is the realization of the essential unity of the subject with the behavior and attitudes / values of life they have. So, character education can be done with the education of values in a person.
Character or to mark comes from Greek which means to mark or focus on how to apply values in the form of behavior, so that people are not honest, greedy, cruel and other bad behavior can be said to be people of bad character. Likewise with the opposite behavior that is in accordance with the rules will be said to have noble character (Tridhonanto, 2012: 4).
According to the Ministry of National Education Language Center (in Tridhonanto, 2012: 4) the word character means innate, heart, soul, personality, character, behavior, personality, character, character, temperament, character. In addition, according to Tadkiro Musfiroh, a character psychologist (in Tridhonanto, 2012: 4) that the character refers to a series of attitudes, attitudes, motivations, and skills. In line with this according to Sudewo (2011: 13), the word character comes from the English vocabulary, character. It means behavior. Besides character, another word that means behavior is attitude. English does not distinguish significantly between character and attitude. While I tend to distinguish the two explicitly ". In general, we can distinguish between two types of attitude. Good attitude, we call ‘character’. We say 'bad attitude'.
Character is a collection of good behavior from a human child. This behavior is a manifestation of the awareness of carrying out the roles, functions, and duties of carrying out the mandate and responsibility. The opposite character indicates a number of bad strung someone (Sudewo, 2011: 13). In the formation of human qualities, the role of character cannot be set aside. Truly this character is putting someone good or not.
The position of character is not a competency companion, but rather a basis, spirit, or soul. Without character, self-improvement from competence can be wild, running without signs and rules. That's how character always enhances people to not forget to 'improve themselves'. Then the character can be defined as a collection of good traits that become daily behavior, as a manifestation of the awareness of carrying out its roles, functions, and duties in carrying out the mandate and responsibility.
These characters include attitudes such as the desire to do the best, i.e. (a) intellectual capacities such as critical thinking and moral reasons, (b) honest and responsible behavior, (c) maintaining moral principles in situations of injustice, (d) interpersonal and emotional skills, and (e) commitment to contribute to the community and society (Tridhonanto, 2012: 4). The main factors in influencing the character and moral development of children are heredity, childhood experience, the model of a more mature person. When adolescents themselves are easily influenced by their peers, the physical and social environment in general, communication media, what is taught in schools and other institutions, and the current situation, this was stated by Campbell and Bond (in Tridhonanto, 2012: 12) in his research on factors child character formation. From the opinions above, it can be concluded that character as a human process when learning to overcome weaknesses and improve their weaknesses and bring new positive habits.
Thus, characters cannot be inherited, characters cannot be bought and characters cannot be exchanged. Character must be consciously developed and developed day by day through a process. Character is not something innate that can not be changed again like a fingerprint (Tridhonanto, 2012: 4). From the opinion of the six experts above, it can be concluded that the notion of character is a set of values and traits that are always admired as signs of goodness, wisdom, and moral maturity that have become a habit of life so that it becomes a permanent trait in a person. This character is what puts a good person or not.
The position of character is not a competency companion, but rather a basis, spirit, or soul. Besides that, it can be concluded that character is innate, heart, soul, personality, character, behavior, personality, character, character, temperament, and character. More character refers to a series of attitudes (attitudes), behaviors, motivations, and skills.