Orhan Seyfi Ari :: History

Orhan Seyfi Ari An Idealist and Visionary (1918-1992) A luminary to so many teachers(Editorial in Halkin Sesi of 27 December 1992)A School Teachers countenance on Educational History, Teaching, Social CultureOf those who wrote about him in English/American, in Turkish, in Greek book-magazine-newspaper articles and officially and privately (in England, Cyprus, Australia).. to a poet he was a star in his poem, to a columnist an eminent school, to an author a remarkable man, to an editor a defender of liberties, to a writer an honour to deport known, and to a researcher Such nice things I have heard about him... To the Secretary of State for Education he was the teacher of teachers inscribed on his tomb, a university professors condolences from Turkey were to his nation who in his honour named a street after him. Orhan Ari was born in Lapithiou -Paphos, in the, at the time, British colony of Cyprus.. after completing his secondary and high-school education in Nicosia, and upon qualify ing through Morphou Teachers Training College, he also studied agriculture With a slap-up interest in his continuing professional emergence through courses and seminars, and as to the rest mostly self-educated, he has left his unmistakeable mark in the educational, cultural, ethical, social, progress and development of Cyprus. He had been a secondary school teacher, a head teacher, a lecturer an occasional columnist, in his personal circle of friends also a debater, mystic, poet.. in retirement he was invited overseas to inspect schools, and to give talks to cultural organisations He was a true and courageous leader of both pupils and peoples his extraordinary motivation skills had made him a choice of the British for the pioneering educational and socio-cultural development of many of the countrys peoples, and popular in both the Turkish and Greek communities having taught at also British schools pupils varying from Armenian to English etc., also after political independence, whi le later in the course of his communitys adapting to the Turkish system of education (as may be suggested by some of his symbolic poems) he appears to have been officially perhaps less appreciated, upon his peacefully passing international as a cleric of a couple of years in his retirement to make ends meet, the press having praised also his patriotism, the Leader of the Parliament of the Turkish commonwealth of North Cyprus described him as having made both the state and the nation proud as A successful modern educator.