by Gökhan Özkan, METU FLE 2012
I’m a graduate of the foreign language education department of METU and have been working as an instructor of English at Kirklareli University for one year. I’m a proud METU FLE graduate and I can tell you why I am: I didn’t merely find obedience and conformity at METU but, instead, various types of ambition among which academic ambition is foremost.
I disagree with Chomsky when he said: ”I don’t have a proof of this but I have a feeling that when you go to the leading universities, you find more obedience and conformity, probably because you’re getting the students who were better able to do it’’, from his video talk ‘Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young’.
Having been well aware of what METU FLE means for us, I think graduates full of academic ambition, and academic staff with the highest endeavour, are two of the constituents of the resulting prestige and success.
I would highy recommend undergraduate students to:
– Perform professionally and progress
– Be proud to wear the METU badge as honor
– Make sure ‘’METU Impact’’ exists
‘‘There’s a crack,
A crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.’’
Find the crack so as to teach better.
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