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- Title
Talas Amerikan Koleji: Uygur Kocabaşoğlu'nun Deyimiyle Bir Tür Arz-ı Mev'ud.
- Authors
ÖZGÜVEN, Cemal
- Abstract
This article reports a brief journey to a "nostalgic land" (!), Talas American College, where we studied between 1956 - 1961 as young boys of 11 to 16 years old. Many unforgettable and pleasant memories are still fresh and living vividly in our minds even today after so many years. So, what made this school so special for us and different from other schools in Turkey at the time? Firstly, as part of a democratic education, it was a selfgoverning school by the students through a Student Council, Student Assembly Critique /Criticism Hour/Session? Internetten baktım, adamlar okul yönetimini eleştriyorlarmış bu saatte! and the Student Court under supervision of the school administration, while the students assumed responsibilities in setting and cleaning the tables in the dining hall, sorting out the laundry in the laundry room, fetching the post on foot from the post Office in Lower Talas and seeing it through its delivery, organising the weekend social programs in Konak Basement?, when teachers also participated and performed in activities such as music and drama evenings, spelling contests, wrestling matches, student fairs and many more alike. We acquired many valuable life-long skills and experiences at Talas, first and foremost learning English and above all, learning how to learn. In the words of my dear classmate Uygur Kocabaşoğlu, Talas is a longed-for land (promised land?), with such memories of the past for its graduates now in their seventies.
- Publication
Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2015, Issue 39, p95
- ISSN
1300-2864
- Publication type
Article