That in teaching and education children, pupils, students, also, had to be
understood was as important as to empathise with parents was seen when
upon his successes in Paphos city he was sent to close but established the
secondary school in rural Loudrijina
: With 'Who'll graze the sheep, then!?'
& 'Can't afford!' as he was reasoning in Turkish & in Greek with parents and
on potential of funding it with the British, pupils were undisciplined & truant,
unwilling
& uncooperative ~he believed that man, as grown-up or as youth,
had only to be understood to understand
-the latter as a most solid basis for
the desired interest
& co-operation making far too important the former to
only to be based on interpretation of man's expressive behaviour, more so in
matters
of morale & discipline, and so also in teaching & education in schools;
that by 1959 became a modern & best equipped secondary school staffed
also from overseas & entrance-exams of also from the capital city set for the
school in 1954 with only five pupils had begun with pupils
of that very same
school coming keenly to be finding
& repairing old furniture for their school.
Dedication, teacher Orhan
Ari's 'unfinished treatise'...

"Those I gathered from fields & hills and persuaded to
study.. kids given up, persuaded to resume education..."

"His mark on our history of education is not little"
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-on teacher Orhan Ari:

"Sometimes such fools we were, sometimes smart kids
Sometimes satan's tools, sometimes with saintly deeds"
Verse by teacher Ari
'It was like Mr Ari had
known me all my life.'

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