Abstract 
The wave of reform is flown to make "change for a change" in the atmosphere of our education system. The idea of an ideal system of our education is considered and the problems of our education system, especially in teaching and learning of mathematics and sciences are described and then the proposed solutions of such problems are discussed. 

Keywords: reform, will, skill, thrill
 

1. Introduction
An ancient Chinese proverb says, "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago; the second best time is today." Change for a change" in educational reform in our country has to be acted now before it’s too late. The future well-being of our nation and people depend on not just how well we educate our children generally, but on how well we build a strong and up to date system of education.

Firstly, we should ask ourselves, "How should be our system of education looks like for the 21^st Century?; Has a reform been going on our education system? ; Secondly, how well we educate our children in mathematics and science particularly? Here the mathematics and sciences are remarked specifically, without neglecting the contribution of others, because of some reasons relating to the global trend in educational reform recently.
 

2. An Ideal System of Our Education
The ideal system of education is that it should be had constructive changes dynamically without changing the basic mission and vision. The system of education should be based on the crystallization of some well values of our culture and belief, and it can be acculturated and integrated with some well values of philosophy, theories, culture and religion around the world, but it must be constructed without the loss of our well values of culture and belief. 

The idea to adopt directly the American system or Australian system or Europe system to our education system should be threw away. We should choose kindly the relevance values of such foreign systems and match those to ours. Of course it is not easy to do, but we have to do. The system of our education should give a dynamic change for the values of local culture and local system of education to develop their selves properly but they have to support the national education and the unity of our nation. We proud actually of the flowered and colored of our culture and those for a long of time can live in harmony. It is a never ended capital that we have.
 

3. Educational Reform
Has a reform been going on our educational system? The such question recently has been asked by some people who still concern with the future of our nation and our next generation. We have searched that the movement of reform recently has spread out very fast to most aspects of our life. But it has run only on the face, not gone through to the core. The most reformers are only as a "coming on" without "commitment" to take a change. The reformation has removed the components or positions in the system that what they called bad or wrong and substituted those with the new. It is all. The system has never been changed. 

To run the reform successfully we should have what so called "skill" (intellectual dimension), "will" (behavioral dimension), and "thrill" (reward). According to Brian P. Coppola (1998) commitment to reform is like any other change, it requires more than the decision to do so in order for it to happen.
 

4. The Problems of Teaching and Learning in Math and Sciences 
As mentioned above, we have asked how well we educate our children in mathematics and sciences. Why? The enduring reasons (Executive Summary of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, 2000) underscore the need for our children to achieve more competency in mathematics and sciences because in the 21^st Century it tends to:

1. Rapid pace of change in both the increasingly interdependent global economy and workplace demands widespread mathematics- and science-related knowledge and abilities.
2. The deeper, intrinsic value of mathematical and scientific knowledge shapes and defines our common life, history, and culture.
3. The rapid change of information technology that will take place and role on almost all aspects of our life in the new Age.

Let us look backward a moment, what happen in our education system, especially in teaching and learning of mathematics and sciences. There are a lot of problems. We can specify those problems, which can be discussed further in order to find their solutions: 

1. Curricula and instruction problems. The current curricula and instructions on math and sciences seem to be : 

1. too many topics in a short time and teachers must finish to teach those, so teachers tend to grape those topics without think the quality of the learning and teaching, 
2. the lack of teaching student to more creative problems for critical thinking rather than training student to only calculation using some formula (mechanistic training). 


2. We have heard that some math and sciences teachers give up because of that problem. 
3. The lack of quality and professional of the teachers in math and sciences to cope their daily problems in teaching. This bulky problem is caused by several problems related to: 
 

1. the daily life of those teachers, 
2. the very fast changing of science and technology recently, 
3. the lack of those teachers to be able to use of information technology (IT), 
4. the lack of those teachers to change their pedagogical methods that are not match to the student need, 
5. the lack of time to preparing their classroom teachings or their laboratory classes because of too many topics as mentioned in the curriculum.


4. The lack in quantity and quality of the intellectual infrastructure such as a good and complete laboratory and library. 
5. The lack of fund because: 
 

1. the education budget pro year from government is very small (lest than 5% ). It must be more than 10 % of budget year, 
2. the lack of the involvement of the parents and industries or other communities to take contribution in funding school and education.

6. The quality the teacher life it self because of the lack of salary comparing with the some other jobs, so some teachers tend to work part time in their responsibility as a teacher.
7. The problems in the institutions related to educating and training of the candidate of teachers such as Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of some Universities, the Teacher Training College and others. 

According to an experience and a glance looking out in the High School of Teacher Training and Education Singaraja (nowadays as IKIP Singaraja) Bali, that is maybe representative to whole situation in such institutions, the last problem above is described. The students entering our institution year to year tend to down in quantity and quality drastically. Job as teacher seems to be not interesting anymore, moreover as the math and science teacher. They prefer to choose other field of studies such as in area of tourism, management, economy, and other field having a better promising career. So we have lack input in number and quality (they who enter the such institution have basic achievement (so called NEM) in math and sciences very low year to year). 

Moreover, our government has decided to zero growth of the so called Pegawai Negeri, and job or career as a teacher depend on the decision of our government. If this rule and condition happen five or more years, we can image what the future of our next generation looks like. They will not be provided a good education. They will not have a chance and ability to struggle in the future. How they can cope their life in the Globalization Era and the Information Technology Age? We are very worry about. 
 

4. Solutions
In order to viewing those bulky problems, some solutions as a little contribution to make a change are here offered. 

Firstly, we should reformulate our vision and mission of our education system facing the 21^st century. Especially for our education in math and sciences, it should be given more attention to develop our human resource, not only better in basic skill abilities but also in creative and critical thinking abilities. Moreover our next generation should be given more knowledge and more consciousness to keep our nature out from damage and pollution. Facing the new era the problems of our life are more complicated, as impacts of industrialization around the world, human population and economical global competition. Science and technology should make our life more simple, but the fact speaks much more different.

Secondly, the curricula and instructions should be shaped as the student exactly need. In math and sciences education particularly, the curriculum should make a more chance for students and teachers to develop their own abilities to make the teaching and learning process not only more attractive but also more alive. Some approaches can be considered such as science-technology-society approach, humanism approach, local culture approach, process approach and constructive approach. The classroom learning and teaching should be more in exploring the use of so called "information technology" such as internet and software based PC and more in enhancing the use of the intellectual infrastructures such as laboratory, library and work shop. Hence the learning and teaching process is much more interesting for both students and teachers, not only "talk and chalk". 

Thirdly, the national budget of education should be increased at least 15% from our national yearly budget (APBN). The quality life of our teachers should be enhanced with better salary, but they should work professional in their duties as a teacher. Make a new image that become a teacher is the good choice in our life or the job as a teacher is more interesting than others. Education as a commodity ( John W. Moore, 2000) program can be here considered. Why? Education is a part of our life and the way to get better job and then a better quality of life. Hence all components of our society have to support the education area, such parents, industry, and government. If the such program is considered, the consequences according to John W. Moore are: (1) education as a commodity makes lessened support for public education; (2) those who supply education as an economic good should be rewarded, and those who are much better at educating should be rewarded much more; (3) education as a commodity implies that faculty and/or institutions might be able to turn a profit by selling their wares in national and world market. This change must be initiated by teachers and administrators them selves. Teachers and administrators should make effort to be more qualified and professional in their duties, so that they will be earned much better because parents and industries as well will pay more for better education. The constructive competition in the education area will grow well. If our government has still committed with the "education for all" program which tends to keep going on the public education, the concept of education as a commodity has to be accepted as a good rival to strengthening political will in increasing the attention and the national budget in education.

The personal and professional development program should be done intensively and in good sustainability. To enhance the personal of teachers, we should make a balance reward to the qualified teachers and make a good system in supervision and consultation for teachers who are having problem. Both personal and professional of teachers can be develop in the teacher training college and such institutions. To make a change it should be begun by reforming the such teacher training institutions. Nowadays, by comparing to other institutions in other field of studies, the teacher training institutions stand in between alive and dead. Who do still care it?

5. Conclusion
All of us actually have known the ill of our education, however still a few of us takes contribution and effort to cure the ill. Hence we need the three-ills (skill, will and thrill) to make change for a change in our education. Please note that all three-ills in you, so let us work together and ...

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation" ( John F. Kennedy).

References
[1] Brian P. Coppola, The Chemical Educator, 3 (1), 1-10 (1998)
[2] John W. Moore, J. Chem. Educ., 77, 805 (2000) 
[3] The Third International Mathematics and Science Study, "Before It's Too Late" in a Report to the Nation from The National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21s^t Century, U.S. Department of Education (2000)

* Staf pengajar di PSP. Kimia, STKIP Singaraja dan sedang tugas belajar program doktor bidang Festkoerperchemie, Institut fuer Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Technische Universitaet Berlin.
 

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