Intact and character education thorough offers several alternatives for priority development shape the character of a private individual to be virtuous. Choice virtue of priority was based on three dimensions of education characters that form the basis for the development of character education complete and thorough, that individual dimension, social dimension, and dimension morals. 12 Pillars of Virtue as follows:
1. Appreciation of the body
Appreciation of the body is fundamental virtues that need to be developed in every people. Appreciation of the body including the willingness and individual’s ability to maintain and care for each physical health the individual. Physical health is one important part of the establishment of virtue. Character education should be prioritized about how individuals can keep his body from each other, do not spoil it, but make the existence of the body to grow healthy accordance with the development and growth in nature. Appreciation of the body is individual self-expression to be a nurse and protectors to each other. Individuals must grow in her own desire to treat the body of self and others, including psychological and emotional growth.
2. Transcendental
Development of transcendental virtues, either it’s a religious nature, religious, and the sublime, such as artistic sensitivity, appreciation of human works that evoke reflection and the ability to understand the greatness of the divine is the basis for the development of character formation. Each awarded individual sensitivity to something soft, smooth, which work is spiritually accompany humans, the sensitivity would be something that supernatural. Sensitivity to the Holy One, the transcendent, which is good, beautiful, whether in man or in nature, is one means to form a private individual virtuous.
3. Academic excellence
Academic excellence is the basic purpose an educational institution. Different from mere academic excellence pass the exam. Academic excellence included in it, will love science, critical thinking skills, firm in conviction, and willing change of the position after having considered and arguments a mature, thinking people will have the openness, courage continuous self-evaluation and criticism, skilled communicate ideas, thoughts, through language policies in the scope of the academic world, developing a sense of embitterment intellectual who became a key and opening the door for the presence of science of knowledge. From a love of science is to grow innovation, creation and renewal in the field of science.
4. Self-control
Self-mastery is the ability individuals to master the emotions and feelings, and want to subjugate it’s all emotional impulses at the correct destination in harmony with guidance of reason. Self-control including a willingness processing of emotions and feelings, like putting heeling taste feelings appropriate to the context and purpose just as reasonable guided reason. Self-control including the ability individuals in putting themselves, act and speak in wise in space and time specified.
5. Courage
Courage is a virtue allows the individual to do something and what realize are hoping it wanted. Courage includes the willingness to sacrifice for the values that the principle of life, hold slam, persistent, hard work, because the individual has lofty ideals to be achieved in his life. Courage an incentive that allows individuals make real and realize his dream.
6. Love of truth
The love of truth is the basis formation of good character, not just as a learners, but also as human beings. Humans yearn truth and with her mind trying to find people, find and implement what is believed to be the truth. Principle hold fast to the truth must be applied for individual praxis and in life together. The true love of truth It allows one dared to sacrifice himself for the sake of truths which he believed. Therefore, determination of values will truth is what determines human identity as a person character.
7. Skilled
Having a wide range of competencies and skills required, for the development of individual and within the framework of professional development into the main requirement development of character education is intact. Have the basic skills communicate, both orally and in writing, competent in cultivated fields are the basis for success in life the community. Through its competence is an individual capable of change the world.
8. Democratic
Global community to live in togetherness with others. There is a need to need each other, shoulder side one another. Society can not live in a closed connectedness to one another because it is a factual condition people. Therefore, each individual must learn how to live together, set the order of life together, so that inspiration and individual aspirations can be achieved. Democracy presupposes that individuals have autonomy in togetherness for arrange their lives so that individuals can grow in a healthy togetherness. Democracy and development including growth of national spirit.
9. Appreciate the difference
The difference is human nature. Appreciate the fundamental difference is the attitude that must grown within the individual. Especially in national life and state in Indonesia, have grown to appreciate the difference within each individual, because our country was founded because of the founders of this nation appreciate the difference, and the difference was they wanted to unite the power and energy in building the nation.
10. Responsibility
Responsibility is an important element for development of character education because it is associated with expression human freedom for himself and others. Bear This responsibility has three dimensions, namely the responsibility to (a relation between the individual with others), responsibility for (the relationship individual with himself), and the responsibility of (Individual relationships related to the duties and responsibilities in the community).
11. Justice
To be fair, and willing to fight for justice is the basic attitude of a person of character. Justice important to be fought because humans have a tendency for antisocial. For that commitment is needed in order each individual are appreciated. In the context of living together, justice into the soul of a society of healthy, humane and dignified. Without justice, many of the rights of others is violated.
12. Moral integrity
Moral integrity is the main target formation of the individual in character education. Moral integrity is what makes each individual in society plural able to work together to fight for and realize what good, noble, just and human dignity were any differences confidence they have. Provide moral integrity The main award of life, human dignity as creatures of value and worth whatever the circumstances and his condition. The presence of individuals who have the moral integrity to be basis for the construction of a civilized society. Integrity morals arise if individuals are able to make decisions through a process rational considerations are correct, and implement them in the act wisely, according to the context of space and time. Moral integrity including an individual’s ability to make practical policy that is meaningful to her own life and other people.
