I have been writing this column for a long time. Are my articles beneficial for the readers? It is at your sole discretion. What I am sure about is that it is a labor of love and I also advise it to everyone: Do whatever you do willingly.
I joined the industry in 1974. It has been a long time. I had 14 years of experience in two elevator companies before setting up my own business. For me, these two elevator companies are so different, they are like night and day. Undoubtedly, both the night and the day have different contributions to human life; we should experience night in order to understand what the day teaches. Details contribute to the whole; this is how I define it. We should not ignore the whole picture while looking at the details.
For me, the elevator industry has a future. Due to immigration from rural areas, cities are getting larger all over the world, and buildings are getting taller to accommodate the growing population. As a result, vertical transportation gains importance and the elevator industry continuously develops. I believe vertical transportation will have a brighter future. I care about the media organs that give importance to elevator industry. That’s why I am here. For example, this magazine is a valuable guide for the elevator industrialists, and a powerful communication tool and a bridge between companies in terms of its focus. Tens of people work seriously and meticulously in order to deliver you each issue. An intensive effort is spent on the selection of the topics, the content, the layout and the cover.
Before writing my article for this issue, I took a look at my previous articles and was shocked to see nothing has changed! In Turkey, the history always repeats itself! The words are new but the sentences tell the same thing! Nothing really changes; it is always the same story: Crisis!
Again crisis; again shocks!
Really, does anyone know the number of crises we have experienced in this country in the last 10 years? Crises are so intertwined that we are not even aware of if we are experiencing a crisis! Each time, external powers are blamed, the agenda is changed and crises are hidden and normalized. And now, an invisible enemy has come into our lives, one that threaten our health: COVID-19! Our money lost value against foreign currencies and we got poor in one night!
Why does history always repeat itself?
It is a shame for the public of a country not to learn from the past experiences. For me, it is directly related with the education the public has received. See what we have stepped out into while we were expecting a completely different Turkey in the 21st century! The level of per capita national income for a large populace is already a proof that shows how many years the country has gone back in the last three years.
Who is to blame?
Do we have the luxury of looking for someone to blame? For me, we are all guilty! None of us asked what is happening! We did not ask where all these will get to with such an education system and such a sense of justice! We did not ask how people hit the jackpot in one night! We did not think how we could get rich without qualified labor, production and export! We believed in the ones who lied in our faces, we elected them again and we continuously applauded populism.
Education comes first!
I mentioned that I had a look at my previous articles; the article in Yeni Şafak on March 13, 2015, is still up-to-date: “What makes our rich civilization experiences possible is the madrasah and lodge system based on the Qur’an and Sunnah. Unless we restructure our education system on the axis of the Qur’an and Sunnah, the best thing we can do with this self-colonizing education system would be to raise “volunteer slaves” as the voluntary agency of Western culture — as we have done so far. We need to raise new Avicennas, new Itris and new Sinans. To achieve it, we need to place the Qur’an at the center of our education system.”
The answer to the question “is our National Education system based on science or religion?” is clear; the level of education at our schools is insufficient and it decreases day by day. We have been raising young people who could not take place in the world ranking and who are potential members of jobless masses, as they are unqualified.
Education and Industry in Ottoman
In the Ottoman Empire, the Muslims fell behind the non-Muslims in terms of education and economy. According to Ottoman statistics for 1912, 48% of the industry belonged to the Greeks, 30% to the Armenians, 10% to the other and only 12% to the Turks.
Of course, there were reasons!
1. The printing house was used by the Greeks and Armenians 150 years before the Muslims.
2. Starting from the 13th century, science and philosophy were not taught at madrasahs.
3. Pressure from authority, which demanded absolute obedience, prevented free thought and development of legal entities.
Result: the more education, the more production and wealth!
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