TURKISH
MIRACLE IN EDUCATION: VILLAGE INSTITUTES
This model has been shown
as an example for developing countries by UNESCO. Village Institutes
started to be opened in 1937 in order to train “teachers for the
village and other professionals useful to the village” as the
torches of enlightenment in Anatolia. At the time the Village
Institutes were established, Turkey was a country with a low level of
education, weak industry, and 80 percent of its population lived in
villages. In those years, the literacy level in the country was
around 25 percent.
Village Institutes was a project to wake up the people of Anatolia who were devastated, burned and burned, and the Anatolian people struggling with poverty and ignorance, and to create a civilized Turkey. Students; He was learning, applying what he learned and producing.
In this period, after the village children were educated, they were sent back to their villages as teachers in the fields of agriculture, arts, crafts and health. The main purpose of the Village Institutes was to develop the rural area, to train the villagers and to make the trainers and villagers productive.
We
plough, sow, reap, trust and beyond
Every profit of the nation is
in the pocket of the nation,
We gathered to the voice of the
original farmer Atatürk,
War with the soil to the agricultural
front.
We are the foundation, the root of national existence,
We
are the homeland's own owner and the master is the peasant.
What
makes man human, first of all, is this lineage, this land.
Working
sincerely with the latest tools,
To set an example to the near
world for the Turkish,
Head fresh, hand calloused, peace of mind,
clear forehead.
We are the foundation, the root of national
existence.
We are the homeland's own owner, master and
peasant.
We will establish in our own homeland, peace and
order.
Breaking down barriers, national sovereignty
Let the
villages see abundance, comfort and festivity.
It is our
invincible Turkish self.
We are the foundation, the root of
national existence.
We are the homeland's own owner, master and
peasant.
