When the child realizes that adults are not perfect, he becomes an adult, the day he forgives them becomes an adult, and the day he forgives himself becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan

Adult Education From Past To Today?

Education began with the history of mankind.

The ancient Chinese, Greek, Roman and Muslim educators have trained adults to teach them something, and have laid the philosophical foundations of adult education. In doing so, they have not been separated from adult education and child education. If children learn how they think they should learn so. XIX. children until the end of the century; a miniature of adults, and a grown-up child.

Adult education aimed at providing enriching knowledge and skills to those who are not in the compulsory school age and the knowledge and skills gained in the schools has been written and thought very little until recently, especially when the schools are opening adults' doors It has been delayed.

However, we can say that we were better than adult education today. The chambers, medreses, Enderun Mektebi, tekke ve zaviyeler, ahilik organization, coffee houses were important institutions providing education services for adults.

For example, when we look at the history of Turkish education;

"Come, come, whoever you are, come again. Whether you are an unbeliever, Mecusi, or a worshiper, come again. Our lodge is not a hopeless lodge. Come back again, even if you have broken your tribe for a hundred times ... "Mevlana, which sprinkles the seeds of tolerance with their ...

"Seventy-two nationales do not look with one eye, they are true to the marriage of Shar. Yunus Emre, who loves the volunteers who say, "I have not come for the cause, My work is for love ... The friend's house is the hearts, I am doing the hearts"

"O friends! Do not make friends with those who are ignorant. "Hoca Ahmet Yesevi, who is known as Pir-i Turkestan who illuminates the Anatolian geography with the knowledge of his disciples,

Nasreddin Hoca, "Hodja" and volunteer educator on the name of the people of every age, every class starting from the Turkish humor that we have made to ourselves and our supporters as we talked about, "As Hodja said," he plays the whistle that gives money. "" The water of the rabbit is water. "" Friends see it in exchange. "" Moments falling from the damn, dripping. "" Keep your feet warm, your head cool; "Do not scare the Fincanci mules!" "The quilt is gone, the fight is over." The seventies who have been with their fliers, that is life, "laughing at thought," or "criticizing thought "Nasreddin Hoca, who taught his subjects how to question serious matters without being serious to their grandsons ...

Ahi Evran, who brought solutions to issues such as artisans' unions and consumer rights centuries ago, saying, "Have Eline, tongue, waist."

"It is like a stone that is connected with arrogance, it does not swell with it, nor does it fly away." The praise of modesty, Istanbul, Sultan II. Haji Bayram-i Veli, the great person who is announcing the conquest of Mehmed ...

Haci Bektash-i Veli, who is aware of the importance of being one, and being together, saying, "Let us be one, be great, be alive ..."

Osman Gazi's father-in-law, his teacher, Sheikh Edebalı, who should be at the forefront of management science textbooks, says "People lived and live in the state!"

As of today, they were adult education specialists. They continue to educate Anatolian people not only in the period they lived but also in the state.

When the population pyramids are examined carefully, it is seen that more than half of the population is in the 15-64 age group. Unfortunately, the education of adults, who constitute an important part of the population until today; newspapers, television and the reliability of the internet has been handed over to the controversial virtual information pollution.

The unforgettable attitudes of the Turkish educational history we have described above have filled an important gap in adult education during the development and uplifting periods of the Seljuk and Ottoman states. Unfortunately, many academic fields and disciplines nowadays concentrate on childhood and youth work, while adulthood is past. Increasing attention to "Continuing Education" is a positive step for the future, after this short period of fetish life. I do not think this is an educator, but I say yes.

The most important job after that will be the content of materials and programs to be prepared in adult education.

I hope that in our country where every day dozens of women, spouses, mothers, and daughters are murdered, adult education; academic and career-related education.

Nurdan ŞAHİN

assistant director

Karabük HEM ​​ASO