Report: With more Islamic schooling, Erdogan aims to reshape Turkey - Polidicks

[QUOTE]On a hill overlooking Istanbul is a religious school where, 50 years ago, a boy from a working class district attended classes in Islam. The boy was Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s future president. The school was one of the first Imam Hatip schools, founded by the state to educate young men to be imams and preachers. At the start of the 2017-2018 academic year in September, Erdogan returned to his old school, now renamed the Recep Tayyip Erdogan Anatolian Imam Hatip upper school after an $11 million redevelopment. He recalled the “tough days” of his childhood and the spirit in the school that drove its students to success. “The joint goal of all education and our teaching system is to bring up good people with respect for their history, culture and values,” Erdogan told flag-waving children at a ceremony to mark the reopening of the school. Erdogan has said one of his goals is to forge a “pious generation” in predominantly Muslim Turkey “that will work for the construction of a new civilisation.” His recent speeches have emphasised Turkey’s Ottoman history and domestic achievements over Western ideas and influences. Reviving Imam Hatip, or Imam and Preacher, schools is part of Erdogan’s drive to put religion at the heart of national life after decades of secular dominance, and his old school is just one beneficiary of a government programme to pump billions of dollars into religious education. [B]A Reuters review of government budget and investment plans shows that spending on Imam Hatip upper schools for boys and girls aged 14 to 18 will double to 6.57 billion lira ($1.68 billion) in 2018 - nearly a quarter of the total upper schools budget. Although the 645,000 Imam Hatip students make up only 11 percent of the total upper school population, they receive 23 percent of funding - double the spend per pupil at mainstream schools.[/B] Since 2012, when Imam Hatip education was extended to middle schools for pupils aged 10 to 14, total pupil numbers have risen fivefold to 1.3 million students in over 4,000 schools. The government intends to complete construction of 128 Imam Hatip upper schools in 2018 and has plans to build a further 50, the budget and investment plans show. Turkey has also increased religious education teaching at regular state schools, some of which have been converted into Imam Hatip schools. The government declined to say how many.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE][B]But for all the extra cash they receive, the Islamic schools are underperforming the regular ones, key metrics show.[/B][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]An official in the president’s office referred Reuters to Erdogan’s public remarks on Imam Hatip schools and declined to comment further. A government adviser said, “Islam is not being forced on people. It is not a matter of saying everyone should go to Imam Hatips. We are just providing an opportunity to those families who want to send their children to Imam Hatips.” The expansion of religious education is unsettling some Turks. Interviews with two dozen parents, teachers and education officials point to deep divisions over the role of Islam in education. Some secularist parents say the Islamist school movement is robbing their children of resources and opportunity. Those differences are part of a wider disagreement between liberal and secular sections of society and Erdogan’s support base of conservative, pious Turks.[/QUOTE] [URL="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/turkey-erdogan-education/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social"]Reuters.[/URL] Emphasis mine. Very interesting article that really shows what kind of future Erdogan wishes for Turkey. I highly suggest reading through the article.

Reshaping it into a pile of dogshit more like. I'll take a proper read through the article when I get back home but I suspect little good will come out of Erdogan unless it benefits him.

They should generate electricity from Mustafa Kamal spinning in his grave

I just want to know when he'll bring back the fez

Just what the world needs, more religious fundamentalism.

[QUOTE=Amfleet;53080696]I just want to know when he'll bring back the fez[/QUOTE] The fez was a sign of westernizing secularism. So probably not

[QUOTE=Aztec;53080759]The fez was a sign of westernizing secularism. So probably not[/QUOTE] Ataturk banned the fez. Since Erdogan seems to want to undo everything Ataturk did, he'd probably bring it back.

Erdogan is such a massive cunt. And the worst part is that , as demonstrated when the coup happened, the Turkish love him.

up to Erdogan if he wants Turkey to be a strong and competitive country or not, looks like he doesn't. this is the kind of strategy id expect from a 'very easy' ai in the civilization games, one that just plays to fail

[quote]But for all the extra cash they receive, the Islamic schools are underperforming the regular ones, key metrics show.[/quote] ah but those are western meterics, their scores on islam are through the roof.

[QUOTE=Sableye;53081579]ah but those are western meterics, their scores on islam are through the roof.[/QUOTE] They're putting all their points in divinity as to minmax as a cleric