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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. |
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Dedication, teacher Orhan
Ari's 'unfinished treatise'... |
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"Those I gathered from fields & hills and persuaded to
study.. kids given up, persuaded to resume education..." |
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"His mark on our history of education is not little"
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Dogrusoz -Kibris 5 2 99
-on teacher Orhan Ari:
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"Sometimes such fools we were, sometimes smart kids
Sometimes satan's tools, sometimes with saintly deeds"
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Verse by teacher Ari
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'It was like Mr Ari had
known me all my life.' |
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Email S Kamil 20 3 01
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