Özet:

The Village Institutes were opened in order to promote the literacy and to raise, in short time, the rate of reading and writing especially in the rural areas (in 17 April 1940). Due to the difficult economic situation of the country the state aimed to run these schools with minimum cost. Instead of constructing new schools building and classrooms, the state aimed at meeting all these needs with the help of villagers, teachers and students. As the teachers were paid very little, they had to make a living by working in other fields such as gardening and working in the yards. Instead of a theoretical education in classroom, the students of these schools had an applied education program. The engagement of the teenager students in the works such as construction and gardening voiced serious criticisms. The debate on the village institutes, began with the opening of these schools and going around dichotomies such as urbanite / peasant, left / right, revolutionary / counter- revolutionist, is still not ended although they were closed.

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