It has been obvious that the quality of many schools in Indonesia is below the global standard of education, specifically that of the primary and secondary schools. Many efforts have been carried out in order to escalate the quality of national education. However, the various education quality indicators in Indonesia present data that confirm Indonesia national education is below the expectation. One of the possible causes of this problem relates to the educators’ professionalism.

Using, a library-based research design, this article attempts to analyze efforts to escalate the quality of education by concerning more to the educators’ professionalism improvement. educators are the major component in a system of education. They are the center of transformation, internalization, and externalization of education values.