Schwarz's Evaluation

Emert. Prof. Dr. Philippe Schwarz has been invited to Turkey and given a duty by ATATÜRK in establishing a modern university in Turkey.

Schwarz reported that his contribution to this program had not been sufficient enough due to some reasons. According to him, there were two serious grounds of the failure. Firstly, the lack of the self-esteem among the most Turkish well-educated people; and secondly, the current inconfidency of most Turkish people against the governors and the bureaucrats of Turkey.

Schwarz formally claimed that the following features were frequently seen among the Turkish academicians. These are as follows:

Superfluous pessimism, unjust criticism ambition, performing the realities and the problems from the wrong standpoints, assuming an arrogant air, not taking the serious matter into consideration, excessive addiction to the showiness, depriving of tolerance, envying, despising other academicians, intolerating against the hard-working student, desire of saving appearances prominently.

Even today, most of the Turkish academicians are in such a way that they still treat inconveniently despite the all claims which have been made by Schwarz.

Unfortunately, they are mostly the same as those of the past six decades, or much worse.