A perspective to education in Turkish utopia: The example of Schools in my Dream by Ismayil Hakkı Baltacıoğlu

Although the history of utopia dates back to Aristotle and Plato, it was Thomas More who put forward the concept as a concept, and then it started to be used by many thinkers. In our country, works related to this genre have been produced and writers who criticize the problems and policies of the period and instead imagine and write better ones, have written works of this type and attracted attention to this genre. In the utopias, some important parts about education were also included, and new ideas were produced by putting forward opinions on this subject. İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu is an intellectual who lived in the 19th century. During his lifetime, he produced works in many fields and contributed to this field, especially with his studies in the field of education. He especially expressed the educational problems of the period in his works, criticizing some points that he saw as wrong, and provided information on how to correct the faulty aspects of these practices. He used a more concrete narrative method by narrating the education model, which he conceptualized as "İçtimai Mektep", which he also put forward in his Utopia type work named Schools in My Dreams, using his own imagination.