Bu kitap, Türkiye’de yaşayan başta Suriyeliler olmak üzere tüm Arap öğrenciler için yardımcı bir kitap niteliği taşımaktadır. Kitapta günlük yaşamda sıklıkla kullanılan Türkçe kalıp ifadelere yer verilmiştir. Böylelikle daha rahat iletişim kurulması ve Türkçenin hızlı bir biçimde öğrenilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Türkçe-Arapça Konuşma Kılavuzu’nda günlük işlerinizde karşılaşabileceğiniz durumlar için örnek diyaloglar içeren 21 tema bulunmaktadır. Her temanın sonunda, diyaloglarda geçen ve öğrenilmesi beklenen sözcük ve kalıp sözler özetlenmiştir. Tanışma, tanıştırma ve adres sorma gibi temel iletişim durumlarının yanı sıra restoran, pastane, kasap, manav, hastane, eczane, otel, banka, müze ve otogar gibi mekânlar için örnek diyaloglar oluşturulmuştur. Ayrıca kitapta öğrenci işlerinden belge isteme, kargo gönderme ve ev kiralama gibi birçok durumu kapsayan farklı temalar yer almaktadır.

The nature of Education is determined by the nature of mind—that it can develop whatever it really is only by its own activity. Mind is in itself free; but if it does not actualize this possibility, it is in no true sense free, either for itself or for another. Education is the influencing of man by man, and it has for its end to lead him to actualize himself through his own efforts. The attainment of perfect manhood as the actualization of the Freedom necessary to mind constitutes the nat

The profession of teaching has long been characterised by certain habitual convictions, which Spencer undertook to shake rudely, and even to deride. The first of these convictions is that all education, physical, intellectual, and moral, must be authoritative, and need take no account of the natural wishes, tendencies, and motives of the ignorant and undeveloped child. The second dominating conviction is that to teach means to tell, or show, children what they ought to see, believe, and utter. Expositions by the teacher and books are therefore the true means of education. The third and supreme conviction is that the method of education which produced the teacher himself and the contemporary or earlier scholars, authors, and publicists, must be the righteous and sufficient method. Its fruits demonstrate its soundness, and make it sacred. Herbert Spencer, in the essays included in the present volume, assaulted all three of these firm convictions. Accordingly, the ideas on education which he put forth more than fifty years ago have penetrated educational practice very slowly particularly in England; but they are now coming to prevail in most civilised countries, and they will prevail more and more. Through him, the thoughts on education of Comenius, Montaigne, Locke, Milton, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, and other noted writers on this neglected subject are at last winning their way into practice, with the modifications or adaptations which the immense gains of the human race in knowledge and power since the nineteenth century opened have shown to be wise.

Charles W. Eliot.

1910