Orhan Seyfi Ari :: History

Orhan Seyfi Ari An Idealist and Visionary (1918-1992) A luminary to so many teachers(Editorial in Halkin Sesi of 27 December 1992)A School Teachers Mark on Educational History, Teaching, Social CultureOf those who wrote astir(predicate) him in English/American, in Turkish, in Greek book-magazine-newspaper articles and officially and in camera (in England, Cyprus, Australia).. to a poet he was a star in his poem, to a columnist an eminent school, to an author a remarkable man, to an editor a guardian of liberties, to a writer an honour to induct known, and to a researcher such(prenominal) nice things I have heard about him... To the Secretary of present for Education he was the teacher of teachers inscribed on his tomb, a university profs condolences from Turkey were to his land who in his honour named a course after him. Orhan Ari was born in Lapithiou -Paphos, in the, at the time, British liquidation of Cyprus.. after completing his secondary and high-school instruction in N icosia, and upon qualifying through and through Morphou Teachers Training College, he too studied agriculture With a crafty interest in his continuing professional development through courses and seminars, and as to the rest mostly self-educated, he has left his unmistakeable mark in the educational, cultural, ethical, social, get along and development of Cyprus. He had been a secondary school teacher, a psyche teacher, a lecturer an occasional columnist, in his personal circle of friends also a debater, mystic, poet.. in hideaway he was invited overseas to inspect schools, and to run talks to cultural organisations He was a true and courageous draw of both pupils and peoples his extraordinary motivating skills had made him a choice of the British for the pioneering educational and socio-cultural development of many of the countrys peoples, and popular in both the Turkish and Greek communities having taught at also British schools pupils alter from Armenian to English etc., also after political independence, while afterwards in the course of his communitys adapting to the Turkish system of education (as may be suggested by some of his symbolic poems) he appears to have been officially perhaps less appreciated, upon his peacefully passing away as a cleric of a couple of years in his retirement to make ends meet, the press having praised also his patriotism, the Leader of the Parliament of the Turkish res publica of North Cyprus described him as having made both the state and the nation proud as A successful modern educator.