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The strict prohibition of religious education at
public schools…. |
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The creation of the first Conservatory of Turkey
in Ankara; Hindemith, Strauss, Bartok has been brought to Turkey to set up
the fundaments of the modern music education in Turkey… |
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For the modernization of the antiquated Istanbul
University, the very best professors of Germany, Austria, Switzerland has
been brought to Turkey (Schmalenbach, Einstein are among the most famous
ones...) |
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“Village Institutes” have been established to
educate the children of poor farmers not only as the next generation of
teachers but also as a wide range rural cultural developers to save the
backward parts of Turkey from bigotry and darkness... Unfortunately these
schools have been banned with the pressure of US government in 1950ies with
the accusation that these schools were creating “ a sympathy for the
communism” while these students were being educated with the ideas of Jean
Jack Rousse, Montaigne, Dante, Voltaire, Platon, Aristo, Rumi…etc. and
while listening to Mozart, Beethoven..etc. |
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With the instillation of the “PRODIGY CHILDREN” law,
a few very famous artists and musicians of the Turkish society of today
have been sent to the best schools of music and arts in Europe and the US. |
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A well balanced system of eclectism by teaching
the best values of WEST and the EAST was the fundament of the modern
Turkish Education. |
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