How Should Pupils Make the Most of Their Summer Holidays?
The summer holidays are also a unique time to discover new interests. Activities such as painting, engaging with music, learning chess, studying a foreign language, conducting scientific experiments or taking an introductory course in computer ...
The Silent Triumph of Value: It Is Not Positions, but Contributions That Are Remembered
Nowadays, many people try to appear important by exploiting the opportunities afforded by their position, rather than taking on responsibility. Yet it is not one’s position that determines a person’s true greatness, but the value they ...
Human Nature and Education
The development of societies depends on the cultivation of individuals who generate knowledge, question, adhere to ethical values, and possess a conscience. In this process, role models, experiential learning, and a values-based approach to ...
The Turkish Struggle for Full Independence
Parvus’s warning that “A state that borrows takes orders” and his theories on economic independence later became the unshakeable foundation of the Republic, embodied in Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s maxim that “Political independence cannot ...
The Call for the opening of the Heybeliada Greek Orthodox Seminary and Opposing Views
If the Heybeliada Greek Orthodox Seminary is situated within Turkey’s borders but operates as an institution beyond Turkey’s control, Turkey rightly regards the existence of an educational institution within its borders that is not fully subject ...
Peer Bullying and Peer Kindness in Turkey
Bullying is a critical issue that directly affects not only individual development but also the quality of educational environments and social cohesion. Today, the fact that bullying behaviours ve extended as far back as the pre-school years and ...
The Impact of War on Education Systems
One of the most evident effects of war on the education system manifests the physical frastructure of educational stitutions. Damage to or closure of schools due to bombardments, military operations and security risks leads to terruptions ...
Behavioural Indicators and Effects Leading to Perceptions of Exclusion and Disapproval in Social Settings
The perception of not being liked may not always be based on objective exclusion. However, the persistence of this perception and its recurrence in different contexts suggests that this situation is not merely an individual interpretation. At this ...
Two Countries in the Mirror of Education: Britain Pursuing Reform, Turkey Undergoing Change
Being an educator who travels between two untries holds up a mirror to me on the subject of education. Every time I look into this mirror, I see not only the education policies of the UK and Turkey, but also their perspectives on children, their ...
The Teacher's Footprint: Responsibility Spanning from the Past to the Future
We witness how the reams of young teachers, who score high marks in the KPSS but cannot be appointed, are shattered as they waste years on exams. Some become couriers, some cashiers... The saddest part is the tragedies resulting in suicides, where ...
Who was John Dewey?
The new Republic of Turkey aimed to implement reforms in the political, economic, social and cultural spheres, as well as a new education system, with the aim of building a national ...
Learning by Doing and Living: From Roots to the Future
“School is not just four walls. School is everywhere.” How true that observation is. Indeed, education is not merely about ticking boxes on exam papers; education is about the child touching life with their own hands. ...
What is the Fulbright Agreement?
At one point, thinking (or being made to think) that we could not establish our own ‘national education system,’ we turned to non-national solutions. The most well-known and famous of these is the education programme known as the ‘Fulbright’ ...
Learned Helplessness in Education: The Influence of Family, Teachers and the System
A supportive teacher attitude helps students view their failures as ‘learning opportunities’. Indeed, a study conducted with secondary school students found that those with high academic self-efficacy had low levels of learned helplessness, ...
A Final Closing: Walking Again in the Poetry of Hope
The picture before our eyes is very clear: every tragedy is discussed for a few days and then forgotten. Every forgotten tragedy becomes an invitation for the next ...
The Mathematics of Life (Part 4): The Spirit of Kalpak, Behind the Camera Heart A Tribute to Nejat Saydam
Nejat Saydam is a cinema worker who does not view cinema merely as a means of entertainment, but as a medium to tell stories from the heart of the people. He is someone who sees serving this nation not only behind the camera but also in the deepest ...
Long Live Youth, Down with Old Ways
Every sentence begins with ‘in our day’ and ends with ‘nothing will come of today's youth.’ Come on! It's not the youth, it's you! This old-fashioned crowd is still playing the same old ...
Exam and Competition-Oriented Education in Turkey: Effects, Results, and Solutions
Centralised exams such as LGS and YKS have an impact on individuals' self-perception, family relationships and social value structures. The limitations of measurement and evaluation methods and families' misconceptions about success continue to be a ...
The Starting Point of Learning: Attention
Learning is a process that causes permanent changes in individuals' knowledge, skills or behaviour. Attention is a fundamental component of this process; it is the mechanism of focus and information selection necessary for the learning process to ...
The Mathematics of Life, Is Boğaziçi Dreaming? (Part 3):
After 1923, Robert College maintained its status as an institution that sustained and strengthened its high academic achievements until 1971, in parallel with Turkey's process of opening up to the West and ...
From Inconsistency to Freedom...
‘Man is a prisoner of his own judgements.’ He thinks, exalts, defends, but when it comes to living, he stops. Because behind every ideal lies an unacknowledged ...
Causes, Consequences and Solution Methods of Conflict in Educational Institutions
Conflict should not perceived as a negative situation; when managed correctly, it can bring about constructive change. Conflicts can seen as an opportunity to make educational processes more effective, help individuals understand each other ...
The Mathematics of Life Conversations (Part 2): The Bandırma Travellers, The Strategy of the Right Path
Önay Yılmaz is the author of Bandırma Yolcuları (Passengers of Bandırma). He has written about this journey in great detail. It is important to analyse history accurately. It is even more important to convey that sense of history. Reading this ...
Always Watching Spring Through Someone Else's Perspective
Can you imagine a civilisation that built an observatory in the 13th century but discredited scientists in the 21st ...
Stress Sources, Consequences, and Coping Methods Among Staff in Educational Institutions
Stress affects everyone, whether they are managers or staff, to varying degrees, negatively impacting individual and organisational ...
The Mathematics of Life Conversations (Part 1): Artificial Intelligence and Our Future
Interview Topic Title: The Age of Artificial Intelligence and Our Future Guest: Prof. Dr. Çağdaş Hakan ...
How to Sit? How to Smile?
How should one smile? There is a proper way to smile. There is a special beauty in the smile of a woman who smiles without making herself look ugly and without showing off in a way that might upset or annoy those around ...
Rain of Thoughts: Looking at the Rainbow without Getting Wet
You are much bigger than your thoughts. Thoughts pass like clouds; you are as wide and free as the ...
Education: Shackle of Memorisation or Key to Critical Thinking?
As Edgar Morin said, ‘the problem is not that you are not educated. The problem is that you are educated enough to believe what you are taught, but not educated enough to question everything you are ...
Game Technology in Education: The Learning Experience of the Future or a New Risk?
Strategy and puzzle-based games develop students' critical thinking, decision-making and problem-solving skills. These games allow players to analyse complex problems and try different ...
What can teachers do against unwanted behaviours?
According to a study, the most common undesirable behaviours of students in the classroom environment are not being able to concentrate ith 78 percent, not being able to sit in one place for a long time ith 77.6 percent and missing their homework ...
Is There a Relationship Between Education Level, Conservatism and Crime Rates?
Education can be effective on political participation by raising social status, providing the individual with skills and resources that can be valid for organisational and political activities, providing scientific skills to think abstractly and ...
How should the training process of the personnel be?
In the face of developing technology and social and economic changes, what school education provides is not enough, and it is of great importance to provide the personnel with the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed in business ...
What are the uses of artificial intelligence in education?
The use of artificial intelligence technologies is increasing to provide personalised education solutions according to the individual needs of students, to lighten the burden of teachers and to achieve more effective results in education. ...
Training Costs of US Air Force Pilots by Aircraft Type are Jaw-dropping!
Training a pilot to fly the F-22 Raptor, America's premier air superiority fighter, costs about ten times more than training a pilot to fly the C-17 cargo ...
What is the Mathematics of Time?
Depending on time and space, a huge firmament may be narrow for a person who builds worlds in a small ...
Being Mustafa Kemal's Soldier
On 30 August 2024, during the graduation ceremony of the Turkish Military Academy, the newly graduated lieutenants, led by Lieutenant Ebru Eroğlu, the valedictorian of the semester and the pride of the entire Turkish people, took an oath ...
The Reign of Ignorance in Turkish Society
In societies like ours, something is missing, as if knowing, knowledge is boring. Because we don't read, we don't research, but when it comes to talking, we don't shut our mouths. As such, the nation can neither get out of trouble nor out of ...
An Exciting Lifestyle of Uncertainty
When we are young, we make a lot of plans and develop designs for the future. But things never go as we planned and expected. Because life is chaotic and uncertain by ...
Turkium and Istanetium - Why are there no Turkish Elements in the Periodic Table?
When Mendeleyev printed the first periodic table, 63 elements were known. One year after his death, the number of known elements had increased to 86. This rapid increase was achieved through the periodic table, the most important generalisation of ...
Dead End Street
How do we make a dead end a dead end? It's The important thing is to decide which way the exit will be. Can you decide where that exit will take you, just say that first. After you decide, the rest is ...
What is the Place of Character in Human Life?
People are various and all of them have a different character structure. In our social life, we put suffixes at the end of the word ‘character’ and somehow stick word to people in our conversations. So what is the meaning and meaning of ...
Manipulation
The issue is child manipulation. If children are exposed to a wrong influence during the development of their character, they grow up with character mistakes. ...
How should a production-based education strategy be?
When our children graduate, they should say that I will be a useful person for my country. This should be their motto regardless of their job and profession. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's words "the one who loves is country the most is the one who does ...
Our Education System
Would it be bad if our children received education according to their talents throughout their education life? It seems that we cannot get away with saying that we recognise everyone's right to equal ...
Our Inner Voice
I sometimes find myself having a conversation with my inner voice. It tells me to do this or that, and I say no, not that, let's do this or that! It's like my inner voice likes to argue with ...
Where is the Centre of the World? Kırşehir? Aksehir?
They asked Nasreddin Hodja. Hodja, where is the centre of the world? Hodja took a stick in his hand and put a mark on the ground and said, "This is the centre of the ...
Venus, Goddess of Love and Beauty
Venus has been identified with women throughout history, probably because it appears brighter in the sky. However, the reason why it is so bright is that it is the closest planet to the Earth. It is the second planet of the solar system after ...
The Sun Doesn't Glisten with Slime
Zeus is the god of the sky, lightning and thunder. If he gets angry, he can make life miserable with his lightning and thunder. He can even send lightning and charcoal people. But the sun? What harm is the sun to ...
What are our fears that direct our lives?
The fear of burning in fire is perhaps the foremost fear for people. That is why hell is identified with fire, we are all very afraid of sinning because we will burn, this fear holds people back from sinning to some ...
String Theory
We live in a four-dimensional space-time. In theoretical physics studies, it is thought that there are more than four dimensions in order for the formulae to fit exactly. ...
Sound Waves
For light, we have found instruments such as telescopes or microscopes, with which we can examine distant or very close objects. But there are no similarly functioning instruments for ...
What is IVF Treatment?
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is the process of artificial fertilisation of an egg by sperm outside the body (in vitro). IVF is an important treatment method used in infertility treatment when other assisted reproduction methods ...
E Education and Artificial Intelligence
Educational technologies encompass all tools and methods used to support and enhance learning and teaching processes. These technologies include various tools such as computers, tablets, smart boards, online learning platforms, applications and ...
Jupiter's influence on Earth
Jupiter's mass is so great that it can even cause the Sun to wobble a little. Saturn is a large enough planet that it could probably have a similar effect on the ...
Robot or Real?
I don't know where Ajda Pekkan gets this youthful energy from. It's as if the real Ajda Pekkan is living a quiet life somewhere at home and her copy, that is, her artificial intelligence robot form, is around. Believe me, I get this feeling when I ...
What's Happening in National Education (1980-2024) (Part 2)
After 1980, the biggest deviation in education policies was deregulation (deregulation) in education. This is the most critical deregulation step that paves the way for privatisation in education and dilutes state ...
What is Achilles and the Old Turtle (Zenon's Paradox)?
Achilles is the fastest runner of his time. Before the starts, he even gives the old tortoise a 100-metre head start. After the starts, Achilles closes this 100-metre gap in 10 seconds and reaches the point where the turtle started the ...
Diet Sugar, Sugar Free Living
Sugar is very harmful not only for dietary purposes but also for diabetes, the disease of the age. Sugar is the food that is most easily converted into fat in the body. If you also have diabetes, sugar is a completely forbidden ...
What is Happening in National Education (1923-1980)
Although education policies offer great opportunities for the fundamental solution of problems, the results of the implemented policy can be seen decades later. For this reason, haphazard and hasty changes in education policies are not allowed in ...
Chat GPT-4o
With the new update GPT-4o, Chat GPT-4 has learnt to speak by reacting like a real person! Yes, it is now possible to chat with an artificial intelligence on your phone without realising that it is an artificial ...
If it is breathing, it means it is alive
In a news article in 2021, it is mentioned that the person with the Guinness record for holding his breath underwater is Croatian diver Budimir Buda Sobat. Sobat broke this record by holding his breath underwater for 24 minutes and 37 ...
Dark Mysteries of the Universe
Peter Higgs and his mates predicted that mass comes from the Higgs field. The God particle! Until yesterday, there was news on television about the experiments that everyone was eagerly awaiting. Actually, it was called the God particle, the ...
Who is the Prince of Mathematics?
A question asked by a teacher to his students, thinking that they would not be able to solve it in a short time, and the result of ch even he himself did not know, led to the first discovery of a mathematical genius, the Prince of Mathematics, ...
How will the future be?
The age of fake videos has begun, who knows what mankind will do tomorrow, who knows what awaits us tomorrow! How will we understand what is real and what is fake in tomorrow's ...
What is Maths? What is it not?
Real mathematics is not a soulless mass of formulae and rules. Real mathematics is a thrilling adventure of discovery in order to understand the mysterious world of numbers and shapes. A real mathematician is a person who somehow finds ...
What is intelligence?
Sometimes things attract our attention more quickly. We tend to grasp subjects that attract our attention much faster. In other words, this has little to do with ntelligence, ntelligence s a feature that helps us to solve the subject more easily ...
Is Slander a Psychological Disease?
It is a very ugly behaviour to slander, that is, to hurt a person with unfounded accusations, to put him in a difficult situation, to damage his honour, to humiliate him and to want to lower him in the eyes of people, to harm him materially and ...
Our emotions
Anger, fear, shame, disgust, joy, sadness, surprise... Seven basic emotions or primary emotions. These are guides for our lives, we basically direct and maintain our lives according to these emotions. ...
Our DNA Codes
DNA works in quadruple order instead of binary order! The coding is done not with a numerical base of 10, nor with a numerical base of 2, as we know from the digital world, but with a numerical base of 4, consisting of four different chemical bases. ...
Magnetic Field Around Black Holes
As you know, even light cannot escape from a black hole, it is a very dense celestial body. It is a spherical substance that comes together and pulls everything around it with a great gravitational effect, and it is not yet known what might be ...
A new star is born
None of the stars we see in the sky are actually where we think they are. The path of light through the universe is affected by the curvature of spacetime and is warped and twisted as it travels past massive structures such as black holes or massive ...
Is It Easy to Do Your Job Well?
Not everyone is the same, not everyone works with the same willingness, some work just for the sake of working, while others try to work with all their soul. Why does each person work differently from the ...
Solar Eclipse
Moon comes between the Earth and the Sun in each of its orbits, but the shadow of the Moon does not always fall on the Earth. It either stays a little lower or a little higher. In cases where its shadow falls on the Earth, it is not always ...
Does space have a voice?
Since there are no molecules in the vacuum of space to smit sound waves, the universe seems to be a very quiet place to us. However, even two meteorites crashing into each other would make a lot of noise if there was something in between to ...
Set of Quantum Numbers
The concept of infinity, like many other concepts in mathematics, is based on a presupposition. Infinity x number = infinity Infinity - number = infinity There are many presuppositions put forward on the concept of infinity like ...
What are prime numbers? How is it different from others?
In fact, there have been many thinkers throughout history who were obsessed with this subject. How do we know whether a large number is prime or not? The first mention of prime numbers dates back to B.C. It was mentioned on a papyrus from Ancient ...
What is Homomorphic Data Encryption?
If you want, you can send your personal information to the health center as homomorphic encrypted information, the password of which only you know, and you can send the blood test as standard encrypted information so that they can open and analyze ...
Why Are Contrarian People Valuable?
Contrary people, by nature, rather than walking on the straight path and paying allegiance, rather than living in the "obey, relax" mode, they like to go around the obstacles that come their way or that are deliberately placed in their way, and jump ...
Why Did the Cosmic Order That Existed in the Beginning Disrupt?
Logic says that in the beginning there must be an order of infinite dimensions. If one day anyone can find the answer to this question, we can say that we will have a new ...
Why Should Those Who Have the Opportunity and Opportunity Choose to Live in the South of the World?
We come back fast in the south, living fast is another formula for staying young, you know. Einstein proved this fact with ...
Programming Languages
Today I came across a graph showing the historical development of computer programming languages. Even C++ is now down to 23% in terms of popularity among programming languages. The champion is JavaScript, 64 ...
What is Blue LED?
While the bulb invented by Edison gets very hot to produce light, LED lamps have no heat They convert energy directly into a light beam and have very economical energy consumption since there is no heat ...
What is Neutron Scanning?
Neutron radiation makes it possible to reach much deeper than X-rays (X-rays) obtained by electron bombardment and, more importantly, to determine the internal structure of something in three ...
How Some Stars Disappear and Disappear in Space
Is it really possible to destroy something? Or conversely, is it possible to create something out of ...
How does the sun heat us?
There is enormous pressure at the core of the sun. Even though the sun normally doesn't have a shell like the earth, the gravitational effects of gaseous hydrogen atoms generate a lot of pressure and heat in its core. ...
Snowflakes
First of all, almost all of them are hexagonal! Like honeycombs, a hexagon with corners. What is the secret of this hexagonal ...
How do the other planets line up?
Recently, the James Webb (JWT) space telescope came into operation and in a sense revolutionized space exploration. Later, the Euclid space telescope sent into orbit by the European Space Agency (ESA) also carried out good ...
Does the Class (Caste) Order Continue in Turkey and the World?
Both in our country and in many countries of the world, class differences in social life will probably never be eliminated. Someone will keep fanning the flames so that there will always be differences. It is best that we look for ways to live ...
What is Sensible Time?
Because of the tilt of the axis of the Earth's orbit, sunrises and the duration of day and night are constantly changing, and the solstices, called equinoxes, are special days that occur only twice a year. So we live in a constantly slippery ...
I love, but to what end?
We all want a world full of love, but for some reason we do our best to make sure there is no love left in the At least there are many enemies of love in the ...
What is Neuralink?
Elon Musk recently announced Telepathy on his former Twitter, now X, which he now owns! What is Telepathy? A chip implanted in the brain! ...
Good night, Mr. Fournier
This house is quiet, stuffy. The shutters are closed. It's night, but I still pulled the living room shutters upwards, all the way. I did this because I want to see the lights of the Gulf, the lights of the ferry going at night, the lights of the ...
When did nobility and courtesy leave our society?
In fact, the roots of nobility are hidden in the human soul. It is an indication of growing up in a good family. It is the outward reflection of what kind of person you are. ...
Crow and Raven
No matter what you do, the crow will not give up its treachery! That's its character! Are crows really traitors? Isint there a slightest love in ...
Why is Taking Responsibility a Virtuous Behavior?
Unless he/she has a special deficiency, a physical or mental disability, every adult individual must first strive for his/her own existence in the society in which he/she lives. Then, he/she should have an attitude that can produce benefits for ...
Fourier Transform
In fact, it all started with the discovery of the atomic omb in the early 19th century. First, the Americans conducted some nuclear tests on their own soil and of course the atomic ombs were dropped on Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then a race ...
Is it too difficult for us humans to know our limits?
Many people with no educational background, no professional background, can propose solutions in the media on almost any issue put before them, regardless of their ...
Family Structure and Children
The importance of family in child education is great. If a tree needs water to develop, grow and bear fruit, the most basic need for children to grow up as healthy and well-rounded individuals is ...
We Will Find Petrolium on the Moon
For example, Japan recently became the fifth country to make a soft landing on the moon. Even Japan is working very seriously. Unfortunately, our politicians have not yet set a proper goal on this issue. ...
Being Ashamed, Being Ashamed, Being Human
In a way, being ashamed is a very nice feeling. It is a feeling that makes a person who does not burst and knows how to be ashamed beautiful at the same time. A person who is ashamed covers things and struggles with them at the same time. Struggle ...
What is True Friendship?
A true friend, even if you move away from him for various reasons, he watches you without you noticing and tries to protect you from dangers. Because real friendship is not a conditional friendship, it is not a ship in which material ...
What is the Difference of Neuromorphic Computers from Others?
Neuro means nerve in Latin, and the word neurology is derived from the same root. Morphic comes from the Latin root morpho, which means form. In other words, we are talking about neural-shaped computers whose structures resemble the structure of ...
Shall We Collect Some Space Junk?
The magnetic field around the Earth acts as a shield that protects the earth from these magnetic storms of the sun. It virtually repels the magnetic effects caused by nuclear explosions in the sun from around the Earth and thus prevents atmospheric ...
Are Passionate Love and Obsessive Attitudes and Behaviors a Psychological Disease?
The obsessive person enters into a sick thought such as, "If you are not mine, you cannot be anyone's." He thinks he might kill her or take his own life if she leaves him or cheats on him or vice ...
Is There Such a Thing as Digital Consciousness?
The computer programs currently developed are at the level of artificial intelligence, but when much more advanced models are produced in the future, perhaps one day robots will reach the level of "digital consciousness" like in the movie Don't Look ...
Romance by Candlelight
Have you ever examined candlelight closely? It moves gently if there is even the slightest breeze in the room. But while it burns calmly, it doesn't move much like that. Let's take a closer look at the candle ...
Did you know that if you change your thoughts, you can also change your destiny?
Our consciousness, in other words our ind, ay know any things. But why can't we do what we know? Because the subconscious thinks differently about this. Our consciousness and subconscious cannot be friends with each other. For example, there are ...
The world spins! Are you sure? Or is it the Universe that rotates, not the Earth?
Leon Foucault is a French physics scientist who lived between 1819 and 1868. He built a pendulum called the Foucault pendulum and scientifically proved with this pendulum that the world rotates around ...
Starfishes
There are about 1500 species of starfish in the world. Starfish are found everywhere, from tropical regions to cold polar sea waters, from shallow areas to depths of 6 thousand meters. They are considered ...
Long live we are in 2024. Alright what now?
Today, of course, we do not seek inspiration from the stars to learn about the future as we did in the past, but we still strive to obtain new information about the universe every day in order to understand what our future will be ...
Professions and Opportunities Awaiting Retired Soldiers in Civilian Life
Transitioning to civilian working life will require a reasonable preparation period. It is not easy for those retired from the armed forces, not only in our country but all over the world, to transition to civilian working ...
They Had Been to the Moon, Now They Are On the Path from Fission to Fusion, We Are On Foot Again
Experts say that fusion energy will enable the production of energy equivalent to the energy produced using today's 300 gallons of oil, using one gallon of ...
What Do You Understand When You Say Derivative?
The etymological dictionary states that the etymology of the word derivative comes from the verb "derive" and says look at the word derimak. The meaning of derivation is already clear. He didn't write anything about its mathematical ...
There Is No Such Thing as Gravity
Although we can still calculate movements at relatively low speeds with Newton's formulas, we can find accurate results with Newton's formulas in our daily movements. However, the correct formulas are Einstein's formulas, this has been proven by ...
What is the Element Thulium?
Scientists first tried to make a table with atomic weights, but they couldn't figure it out. Later, they thought of arranging the atoms according to the number of protons. Thus, they noticed the gaps in the periodic table and focused on finding new ...
How Was Hydrogen Gas Discovered? What kind of effects has it had on our lives?
As you might guess, Henry Cavendish discovered hydrogen gas by adding metal zinc pieces into acids. Although it was known before him that acids produced gases from some metals. However, Henry Cavendish was the first person to discover the ...
Is There a Limit to Greatness?
Then there is the big ocean. It has a surface area of 165.2 million km2. 210 Turkeys can fit inside. Then there is the world itself, of course the world is not very big as a planet, but it is a vast place for a person after all. Jupiter is the ...
What is the Lorenz Curve? What Does Gini Coefficient Mean?
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz is a scientist who has made significant contributions to world of science with his studies, especially on electromagnetism, mechanics, rmodynamics, hydrodynamics, kinetic ories, light and its propagation, electron ...
What is Nuclear Fission and Fusion Energy?
Fusion reactors; They try to obtain high-capacity energy by combining hydrogen isotopes under high temperature and pressure and using fusion reactions in which light elements transform into heavier ...
Why can't the shooters of the Fenerbahçe bus be identified?
When we want to know the whys, when we sincerely ask the why questions and seek the answers, the darkness will surely be illuminated one ...
Where does the East fall?
For two people in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, the direction of sunrise is different. If they both go in the direction they think the sun rises, they will intersect at some ...
What is the James Web Space Telescope? How are space calculations done?
First Kepler, Hubble, then James Webb, and more recently the Euclid telescope sent into space by Europe, all these telescopes are helping us to understand the details of deep space better and better every ...
What's the Connection Between Surfing and Particle Accelerators?
Some scientists are currently thinking of building an accelerator for subatomic particles that works on the principle of surfing and is much smaller than the existing ones. You know the most famous particle accelerator, ...
How and Why Do We Age?
We don't realize it, but in the end we are a colony of cells living in a colony. All cells live and die in a certain ...
Modern Alchemists of Modern Times
The element with atomic number 118, produced in the laboratory in 2002, was named oganesson in honor of Russian scientist Yuri Oganesyan. Oganesson is highly unstable, with a half-life of less than 1 millisecond. ...
Magic Metal
Piere Curie, the husband of Marie Curie, a two-time Nobel Prize winner, was a scientist working on magnetism. Pierre Curie discovered that metals called "ferrometals", which are attracted to magnets, lose their magnetic properties at a certain ...
Why is it difficult for TAF retirees to transition to civilian working life?
It is not an easy process for armed forces personnel to leave military life, to fully adapt to civilian life and, in particular, to participate in civilian working ...
Not to fall on your hands and feet, to stand firmly on your feet
For humans, walking on two legs is one of the most important steps in our historical development. It is our biggest physical difference from other ...
Behavioral Communication
From birth to death, from production to onsumption, from sorrow to joy, from defeat to victory, there are basic pillars in the individual's own healthy life line and thus in the social ycle. All these shape the behavioral elements of all kinds of ...
What is Euler's Number?
How much more can the compound interest rate be than the normal interest rate under normal conditions with shorter maturities? Actually, this is a mathematical question. And the answer is what we call the "e" number. The Euler number, ...
The Anti-paste of Fear is Love
Bondage is bad, freedom is good. The thing that enslaves people the most is the feeling of fear. It is the fear of loss. The more a person fears, the more dependent he becomes, and the more dependent he becomes, the more he fears, the more he ...
What is Speed? What is Velocity? Are They All the Same Words?
Speed is ultimately a relative concept. According to whom, according to what do we say we have a speed? According to the beholder, the observer. So for the person in the rocket, it appears to be moving away at the same speed as the rest of the ...
Flying an airplane, looking at life from above
How life changed when man made the airplane, right? Before airplanes, though, we started flying in balloons. From the basket of a balloon, how beautiful the view from up above looks down below. ...
What is a Sensor? Sensor Types? Sensor Usage Areas?
Sensors are used extensively in our daily lives. For example, the common mercury thermometer is a very old type of sensor used to measure temperature. By using colored mercury in a closed tube, it relies on this chemical to have a consistent and ...
Did you see the man jumping on the moon?
Since we weigh six times less on the moon, I think it is certain that we can jump six times higher. Because when we jump, our legs will exert the same amount of upward force as on Earth. The moon's gravity is six times ...
Why Istanbul Aerospace University Integrated to Ataturk Airport should be Established?
The Aviation and Space University will be an academic home in accordance with the realities of our country, teaching the transfer of theory into practice, effective enough to support the development of Turkey's aviation and space operations and ...
The Wine Stone and its Inspiration for Pasteur
Light transmitted through tartaric acid crystals from wine always refracts in one direction. The tartaric acid crystals obtained in the laboratory scatter the light. Although the crystals look exactly the same, Pasteur's artistic personality noticed ...
November 24
I think what our teachers should really teach us is how to learn. If a person knows how to learn on his own, there is no need for someone to teach him anything. He searches and learns what he doesn't know ...
What is Minkowski Geometry?
Hermann Minkowski (1894-1909), a mathematics teacher, was the person who mathematically formulated Einstein's view that "time, space and motion are not independent of each other", which he d mentioned in his theory "Special Relativity", which he ...
Don't Just Say Bicycle
A bicycle is an indescribable feeling of freedom. Started in 1790 in ance, the form and activity of the journey that it has taken today is very surprising. The first models were used as the big-wheeled version of the "skateboard" for many years. ...
Can you see everything when you look?
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was divided this year between three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier. These three scientists were honoured with the prize because they were able to produce laser light, ultra-short ...
Think Critically, Be Your Own Student
In classical education ms, the student is a receiver with no participation. The teacher is an authority, the authority in his/her field and it is not possible for a student to add anything new to his/her knowledge. In most modern education ...
In this life, the only thing that cannot be bought with money is experience
Ibn Sina said, "Experience is superior to knowledge." Benjamin Franklin also underlines the experiences when he says, "Experience is the most advanced of schools, in that school, even fools learn ...
Is the Number of Letters in the Turkish Alphabet Enough to Express Ourselves?
There are exactly 74 letters in the Cambodian alphabet. Of course, we are talking about the alphabet, since there are no alphabets in China or Japan as we know them, we consider these alphabets out of the category. Although the Japanese have ...
A Shooting Star, Did You See İt?
The smaller the , the faster it burns up. The slightly larger ones almost reach the earth, but s that burn up before they reach the earth are called s. If the is large enough, the remaining parts of the ...
What is the Secret of Community Success?
I think that collective work, cooperation, planned work and establishing a good control mechanism are very necessary for social success. Always "strength comes from ...
Who wrote the first novel?
Of course, Russians are not the only ones who wrote novels. But I mean, when we go deeper into history, we come across epics, legends, maybe stories, tales, even fairy tales. We should not forget poetry, but I think the novel is a branch of ...
A Sip of Human, Who is Bearded Celâl?
When Tevfik Fikret became the principal of Galatasaray High School, he did not let Sakallı Celâl slip away and made him teach at the school. He teaches many young people like Nâzım Hikmet. He tells his students, "The jacket hanging in the ...
How can teacher leadership be developed?
The level of development of a country is directly proportional to quality of education received by citizens of that country. Teachers have an important role in bringing education to most functional level and implementing it, providing ...
The Place and Importance of School Management in Education System
The state has hed the education system to enable citizens to exercise their right to education and to facilitate its own duties. Educational management is the process of operating, developing and renewing the educational organisation ...
Why should Total Quality Management be implemented in education?
TQM, which was initiated by the Japanese and spread to the world, and which the USA and some European countries followed the Japanese in s implementation due to s great success in achieving organisational goals and the increase in productivity ...
The Scientific Attractiveness of Human Nature
For example, I take my hand from here and put it here. What are the stages of this movement? First of all, I have to want it. So this is a movement that I can do under my control. I want it and through some electrical ions, some chemical ...
Could Einstein Have Been Wrong Like Newton?
In order for them not to separate from each other at such a speed, there must be a mass somewhere out there that is about 400 times larger than the apparent mass. But there is no visible mass. Something invisible is holding these galaxies together. ...
Basic Values in Traffic and Traffic Psychology of Turkish People
The respect, cooperation, patience, sense of responsibility, empathy and tolerance of people in every environment, especially in traffic, are as important values as traffic rules in terms of ensuring traffic order in society. ...
Albert Einstein and His Dreams
I think scientists should also be a bit stubborn. A little stubbornness is also necessary to discover something. But not too much, because stubbornness means that you insist on something even if it is proven otherwise. Futile persistence is not ...
Do our children have to go to school in the dark?
Can you imagine, you are a small child and you go school in freezing weather and more importantly in a city that is in darkness almost all day in winter. I sometimes come across critical articles on the internet about the government's decision ...
The Magic World of Words
However, he most important feature hat distinguishes us from other living beings is our ability o use words. However, many of us do not appreciate his ability. We either waste it by being silent or we consume words and heir meanings by alking ...
Reform in Education is a Must
So what are we going to teach all these young minds in schools? Aren't schools actually necessary institutions for everyone to have a profession? Not so much in our country, but isn't the purpose of schools to guide each child according to his/her ...
How I Write My Articles at STRASAM website
In the desire to write, we definitely have a starting point, an t that ignites us. Thinking about those ts is important for our writing adventure and for getting to know ourselves. I always say one thing, a book changed my life! Maybe an ...
My True Story, That Book: War and Peace
What had happened was that was now reading one book after another, books had not read in a lifetime! My passion and curiosity for history played an important role in this. And started with the classics, and the rest is history. The first book ...
How to Study Effectively?
Learning is not a spontaneous phenomenon; it is a planned activity. The time you spend on study preparation is a good investment in learning. Before you start studying, there are at least three things you should do: First, you must develop a ...
How to choose a teaching method?
Teaching method is a set of techniques and skills used by the teacher to engage students in meaningful learning experiences. A single concrete skill used in the application of any method is called "Teaching ...
Child Abuse and Social Trauma
Especially in modern societies, it is clear that sexual abuse incidents involving those who work in jobs such as clergy and teachers, which are considered to be reassuring, arouse hatred. But of course, this disgusting incident in our country was ...
Why is it important for a teacher to know child development?
What is development and learning and what does it cover? Development, which starts before birth and continues until the last moment of life, manifests itself as a whole and appears with different characteristics in different periods of ...
Today is November 24th, Happy Teacher's Day
Yes, November 24th, 1928 is the anniversary of our great leader Atatürk being recognized by law as the chief teacher. But the celebration of this day as Teachers' Day was introduced by Kenan Evren with a regulation published in the official gazette ...
Qualitative Planning and Quality Problem in Education
Research shows that the quality of education, rather than its duration, is the determinant of the level of learning and ability and has a significant impact on economic growth. Therefore, access to quality education for all individuals is an ...
The Impact of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
The structure and content of the education system in Turkey is shaped by the factors that organize the National Education System. These factors are Atatürk's thoughts and opinions on education, the Constitution, the Basic Law on National Education, ...
Glorious Nest
There he begins to learn about humanity, helping and receiving, being a man, patriotism, Atatürk, friendship, mathematics, geography, Turkish, English, writing, reading, learning, understanding ...
The Road to Success from Test Anxiety
In general, people express anxiety together with feelings of pessimism, failure, worry, hopelessness, confusion about the future. This is how exam anxiety starts. "If I fail the exam, everything will be over, my life will be destroyed, I will be ...
How to Increase Children's School Success?
Parents are responsible for student failure. Some families do their best for the failure of their children without being aware of this fact. Parents with this orientation need to know some of their misbehaviors and correct these mistakes. Otherwise, ...
Why Do We Not Know the Value of Our Doctors?
What advantages and disadvantages did this new health system bring in terms of closing many hospitals in the city and building a huge city hospital outside the city and bringing all the patients in one place, it is really necessary to examine ...
Who is a well-educated humanbeing?
Regardless of your worldview, political ideology or religious belief, always read and listen to the 'other' or 'opposite view'. ...
What Does Effective School Mean as a Qualitative Approach to Education?
According to a group of theorists, effective school is "the school where the students' cognitive, affective, motor, social and aesthetic evelopments are provided in the most appropriate way and a most favorable learning environment is created". is ...
What is the Importance of the High School You Attended University Entrance?
How valid is the good high school = good college correlation? Although there are different opinions on this matter, yes, this parallelism is true to a certain extent. However, many studies reveal that the individual student himself is more important ...
Education in the Light of Atatürk
Ulusal bağımsızlığın sağlanmasının sadece silahla değil, öncelikle eğitimle gerçekleştirilebileceğine inanan büyük önder, oluşturduğu ilke ve gerçekleştirdiği devrimlerinde eğitimi her zaman öncelikli ...
I Need Business, Not Mind
I think it's reasonable, as the old saying goes, shut up nine times and speak once. First you will weigh it in yourself, what you will say, then you will say it. You will have a ...
What should be done to prepare for foreign universities in high school 1?
In my previous article, within the scope of the dream of studying abroad, “What needs to be done for university preparation in high school?” and “Where to start?” We talked about the issues. When the number of things to do is so high, of ...
What should I do in high school to enter my dream university abroad?
Every year, thousands of students hit the road with the dream of a university abroad and try to achieve a goal. Our young people, who used to go abroad mainly for graduate, master and doctorate degrees, want to go abroad primarily for undergraduate ...
The World and The Turkish Universities Rankings and Measurement Platform Comparisons
The youth, who aim to study abroad and turn to world universities, receive support from reliable and internationally authoritative platforms in performance measurement. Likewise, the decision to study abroad imposes a serious burden and ...
How to choose a university abroad, which university is good?
Young people who turn their eyes and direction abroad, are faced with completely different questions after this big ...
What factors direct our youth to study abroad?
While the importance given to education in the orld is increasing day by day, the value of education has started to be understood more. This change in understanding has shown a noticeable increase in the number of international students around the ...
Brain drain traffic
When it was said, "There is no place like a man's homeland", it has now become "The stone and soil of abroad is ...
Our reality for The Turkish Youth anda Their Educations in Foreign Countries (1)
What happened in the last ten years that the primary goal of all our young people was to go abroad? This is the question on my mind for a long ...
Absurd things in education!
In 1980, I said 'hello' to education at Yeşiltepe Primary School (now closed) in Çarşıbaşı Yavuz ...
