Atatürk's Perspective on Education and Universities

Abstract

From time to time, various attempts have been made to improve our education system since the Ottoman period. Even in this period, in order to break the deadlock in education, the national education policy of the dominant theories of education were asked to be up to date and this, in Ottoman society, "people medreseli and scholar" a nation that we can't be real unless the parties to the merger of power, began to gain strength. 18. in the century, the result of contacts with the West, III. Reform movements started during Selim's time. The reforms were first discussed in the military area and then tried to be carried out in the medical and technical areas. III in the field of Education. Rather than Selim, it was largely II. During the reign of Mahmud, steps were taken for the first major education reforms. II. Rather, Mahmud found it necessary to make these reforms at the higher school level first, in the face of the necessity of reorganizing the military and civilian administration.