Education Debates in the Second Constitutional Era: Ziya G？kalp, National Education and Sat？ Bey [al-Husr？]

Second Constitutional period has a very exclusive place in the recent history of Turkey. Re declaration of Constitutionalism in 1908 vitalised the Ottoman idea life. The vitalisation of this idea life made this era one of the most exclusive period of Turkish history. New ideas accumulating from the starting of the first modernisation periods were discussed in a completely free environment with the declaration of liberty. The whole intellectual accumulation of the modernisation period was publicly debated during this period and new thoughts were partly coast to public. One of the debate issues was education. Second Constitutional period became a time frame that Ottoman intellectuals easily shared their thoughts and criticised their education system. It can be said that “theory of tuba tree” thought of Minister of National Education Emrullah Efendi and “National Education” debates between Ziya G？kalp and Sati Bey leading educators of the period were stamped the Second Constitutional period’s educational debates. This article has been taken to compare educational notions of Ziya G？kalp and Sati Bey. On the other hand, with the answers of Ziya G？kalp and Sati Bey to the question of “what kind of an education?” their basic frame of mind was tried to be analysed