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levels: 1) Parents. 2) Another adult who is responsible for the

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child's maturity.
Imam Barnadib is of the opinion that the main educators

are parents because it is parents who interact with students the

most, either as biological children or as adopted children.
While other elements in society such as teachers, close friends

in the family (uncle) or influential community leaders. As long
as someone has the following educational criteria, adults who

consciously exert influence on students, are responsible and
have authority on the basis of love, as well as being healthy

both physically and spiritually, then he can be classified as an

educator.
2. Protege

There are no two children in this world who are exactly
the same even though they are born twins. Each child is a

separate person. This difference as described previously could
be influenced by endogenous factors, namely innate and

activity (self-help) and also exogenous factors, namely

external influences such as social, cultural and natural
environmental factors. Therefore, in the educational process,

18 Sutari Imam Barnadib, Introduction to Systematic Education, (Yogyakarta:
FIP-IKIP, 1984), p. 61.