Millî Eğitim Bakanı Hasan-Âli Yücel’in Ülkü Anlayışı ve Vatandaşlık Düşüncesinin İncelenmesi

Hasan-Ali Yucel's understanding of the country and the idea of citizenship is based on the love of people and the motherland. He is both an educator with a national thought and a progressive with a humanist understanding. Yücel, from a young age, we see that he has taken on efforts to strive for the future and for the country, that he has taken these issues into his own hands. Yücel has worked for the ambition of individuals who have the characteristics of a good citizen, a good person, a mature person. According to him, education should ensure that the citizens of the country can work for their country as a rule of patriotism and morality, put their existence on the path of service to their country, work for the advancement of their homeland, develop themselves in a way that can be useful to their nation, be able to run at the front when the task comes, and do all this sincerely and by becoming a behavior. The most important means for citizens to be able to get to the point that the country and the state are aiming at is education. Individuals who have fully acquired the educational dimension will be productive individuals for the country and the nation. This education, which extends to all areas from childhood to youth, adulthood and old age, is actually basically a process, and it is the goal of the state to be able to get efficiency as a result of this process. Individuals who continue their education both with state facilities and their own means will have a dedication and ideal, and they will continue this at every stage of their life. As an educator, we can say that Yücel's most important point is education. Yücel, who is against rote education, has targeted individuals who learn by living by doing. Individuals who receive an education that makes them love and believe instead of education given with fear and coercion should be able to meet the country's shortage in the vocational and technical field and the need for a qualified workforce. The student, who is at the center of education, is the main role of education and the efforts made to achieve the profile of a good citizen that the country aims at. These themes that express the student are also the themes and characteristics that Yücel aims at in the citizen of the country. Expressing that there should be individuals who have improved their spiritual life along with material life, that both are needed to fly and rise like two winged birds, Yucel spoke about the development of the individual as a whole, and mentioned that there is no way for a person whose material dimension develops but whose spiritual dimension is missing to become a “good citizen, a good person”. Key Words: Hasan-Ali Yucel, The Understanding of the Country, the Idea of Citizenship