Halide Edip’te Eğitim Fikri ve Onun Talim ve Terbiye İsimli Eseri

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Halide Edip, who was a prominent female author in literature and philosophy during 2nd Constitutional Monarchy Period, worked for the establishment of girls’ schools in early constitutional monarchy. Her utopian novel Turan, which is considered her most important work on women's movement, women established schools in Erzurum in addition to Istanbul. Halide Edip, after the declaration of the 2nd Constitutional Monarchy, wrote significant number of educational articles in newspapers and journals such as Tanin, Musavver, Turkish Land, etc. Education of women was very important for her. Because, it is not possible for women to benefit from any women’s rights without education. She considered women as the first teacher of future generations. After the declaration of the 2nd Constitutional Monarchy, a new type of people was required for the new administration. For the new type of people; 1. New education and instruction 2. Teachers and mothers who would conduct the new education were required. However, the Turkish women were not ready for this change. Halide Edip authored her book titled “Education (Talim ve Terbiye)” during the years when she worked as a teacher in Istanbul Girls' Teacher Training School (Darulmuallimat). The manuscript was written by adding her own ideas to the Turkish translation of the book “The Psychological Principles of Educational Science” by the English educator Horn. In addition to her general ideas on education, Halide Edip provided certain recommendations for teachers in her book “Education”. One of these recommendations was about the textbooks. According to her, the book is and should be a guide. It should never be an order that should be memorized. When a teacher does not agree even with certain issues mentioned in a textbook, she or he should have the courage to express this in the classroom during instruction. A true teacher is not a teacher of the books, but a teacher of the truth. The textbooks should be only one of the tools that the teacher utilizes.