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ORHAN ARI -a School Teacher's Mark on Educational History, Teaching, Social Culture
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Orhan Seyfi Ari
An Idealist and Visionary
(1918-1992)
“A luminary to so many teachers”
(Editorial in ‘Halkin Sesi’ of 27 December 1992)
Of those who wrote about him in English/American, in Turkish, in Greek –book-magazine-newspaper
articles and officially and privately (in England, Cyprus, Australia).. to a poet he was a star –in his
poem, to a columnist an eminent school, to an author a remarkable man, to an editor a defender of
liberties, to a writer an honour to have known, and to a researcher ‘Such nice things I have heard about
him!’...
To the Secretary of State for Education he was ‘the teacher of teachers’ –inscribed on his tomb, a
university professor’s condolences from Turkey were to his nation –who in his honour named a street
after him.
Orhan Ari was born in Lapithiou -Paphos, in the, at the time, British colony of Cyprus.. after completing
his secondary and high-school education in Nicosia, and upon qualifying through Morphou Teachers
Training College, he also studied agriculture…
With a keen interest in his continuing professional development through courses and seminars, and as
to the rest mostly self-educated, he has left his unmistakeable mark in the educational, cultural, ethical,
social, progress and development of Cyprus.
He had been a secondary school teacher, a head teacher, a lecturer; an occasional columnist, in his
personal