AKP Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Aksakallar Council of the Turkish States Organization Binali Yıldırım and his wife Semiha Yıldırım attended the opening ceremony of the Fevziye Yazıcıoğlu Kızılay Kindergarten, which was held in the Samanlı District of Yıldırım district as part of the ’81 Provinces 81 Kindergartens’ project in Bursa, where they came for various programs. joined. Yıldırım was accompanied by Governor Yakup Canbolat, Metropolitan Mayor Alinur Aktaş, AKP Provincial President Davut Gürkan and AKP Bursa deputies.
At the beginning of his speech, Binali Yıldırım congratulated his wife Semiha Yıldırım on the 13th of May from the podium.
“IN OUR TIME THERE WAS NO SCHOOL EVERYWHERE”
Explaining that the ’81 Cities 81 Kindergartens’ project started 6 years ago, Binali Yıldırım said, “This project started with Umut Kindergarten for the first time in Bitlis in 2016. At that time, we were saying, ‘Less went, most remained’. We are opening the 50th one. There are 15-16 more kindergartens under construction. We will complete the others in 2023. In 2023, we will have completed the ’81 and 81 Kindergartens’ project,” he said.
“There was no concept of kindergarten in our childhood years.‘ said Yildirim. “We used to debate whether there is a school or not. There was no school everywhere. If there is a school in 1 village, 7 did not. There were small students from those villages who had to walk to school in the winter apocalypse. Today these are left behind. We have schools, we have kindergartens, too. There are children, the target is to increase the number of our kindergartens. To increase the rate of our students attending kindergarten. Currently, there are kindergartens in the age groups of 5-4-3. We have made significant progress in kindergarten education at the age of 5. The rate has passed 70 percent. We are at the level of 13-14 percent at the age of 3. It has reached the level of 40 percent at the age of 4. Our goal is to exceed 50 percent in pre-school education in the coming years.” he said.
“WE TEACHED YOU TO READ AND WRITE”
Drawing attention to the point reached in the education system, Binali Yıldırım continued his words as follows:
“You already see where we have come from in schooling and education. Today, we have reached the level of 45 percent from 14 percent in university access. We found 100 percent in primary, secondary and high schools. We are busy with a concept called ‘computer alphabet, information society’. 2000” “Children born after the university start education with a completely different alphabet. That is to be a member of the information society. In the computer alphabet, young people are more expert in this subject than we are. You were born in the information age. You are native in this sense, we are immigrants. We taught you to read and write, now it’s your turn. You will teach us about computers, the internet, e-government and social media. We will not fall behind as a member of the information society.”
After the speeches, the program ended with a plaque ceremony and ribbon cutting.
