Talk:Village Institutes

This article isn't only a bit unintelligible but also concept wise misleading in many places. This is basically due to direct word for word translation from Turkish. However, giving it some effort, I have not been able to feel confident that even the original Turkish version is accurate. One issue for a start is the term 'Village İnstitute'. A meaningless entity. A better name could have been 'institutes for rural education in Turkish villages'. Or shortly rural educational institutes. This project was a very successful one for the early periods of Turkish republic and deserves better attention as the question on the brutal annihilation of them with no replacements also does. The main reason for the cultural massacre was stated as their being centers for communist propaganda. Which was a very popular line of accusation in that era and also was a valuable excuse for autocratic government practices. None of the political parties at the time really stood for the İnstitutes as there were never any effort to reopen them in following years. The country would not face most of the problems that are presented today by it's badly educated rural population. Turkey has the lowest rate for upper secondary education among OECD countries. Chances of receiving higher education for girls are much lower than OECD average (although the girls lead the boys by a shocking 16 points in tests). These figures get severely lower in the rural population. Issues like these were successfully dealt with during the active years of the institutes. The topic of these institutes deserves more research, material and analyses by experts to be presented in popular media such as here for the whole world, and with some luck, possibly the Turkish governments to have a just opinion. 176.43.142.190 (talk) 01:10, 7 April 2016 (UTC)