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STUDENT

« No matter what age and class the student is, you will treat them as the elders of the future and treat them as such. »

(1930)

TEACHER

« All over the world, teachers are the most devoted and respected members of the human community. »

01.03.1923

« The new generation will learn the greatest lesson of republicanism from today's community of teachers and the teachers they will train. »

(1924)

“Teachers!... The Republic demands guards who are intellectually, scientifically, physically strong and of high character. It is in your hands to raise the new generation with this quality and ability. »

25.08.1924, To the Members of the Teachers' Union Congress.

" Teachers; You will raise the new generation, the devoted teachers and educators of the Republic, and the new generation will be your work… »

25.08.1924, To the Members of the Teachers' Union Congress.

" Teachers! It is important that the training and upbringing of our boys and girls at all levels of education should be practical as well. The son of the country should be equipped to be efficient, effective and successful in economic life at every stage of education.

25.08.1924, To the Members of the Teachers' Union Congress.

« …The Republic demands from you generations with “free ideas, free conscience, free knowledge”. »

25.081924, To the Members of the Teachers' Union Congress.

« Your success will be the success of the Republic »

25.08.1924, To the Members of the Teachers' Union Congress.

« …It is teachers, and only teachers, who save nations. A nation that is deprived of teachers and educators has not yet achieved the ability to get the name of the nation. It is called an ordinary mass, not a nation… »

14.10.1925, in Izmir Male Teacher's School.

« Teachers should take advantage of every opportunity to run to the people, be with the people, and the public should understand that the teacher is not just a being who makes the child read the alphabet. »

07.071927, Dolmabahçe Palace, İst. Statement to the Board of Teachers.

DEATH

« …Death is the most natural law of nature. But despite being like this, what sad manifestations sometimes present… »

27.01.1923, At His Mother's Grave in Karşıyaka, İzmir.

Source: Türk Kültürünü ve Tarihini Yaşatma Derneği. Daniel Dumoulin - Ali Kaman - Ece Develi - Hüseyin Develi