The second of the "Model United Nations Conference" organized by the Governor Muammer Güler Social Sciences High School was hosted by our university. Within the scope of the four-day event, high school students from different provinces of Turkey discussed the problems related to basic concepts such as freedom, equality, justice and human rights. While doing this, they put aside their own identities and represented people from history and today's world who took charge in some international organizations and state bodies.
Speaking at the opening of the conference, Ibn Haldun University Rector Prof. Dr. Recep Şentürk, “As Ibn Haldun University, our aim is to provide an education that will make our students successful in global competition.” said.
prof. Şentürk said, “In the past, civilizations were separated from each other, they were in a closed civilization. Only geographically neighboring civilizations were in contact with each other. Today it is intertwined. From now on we have to think globally. A student's rival in Turkey is no longer his classmates or neighborhood friends, but students in China, Japan, Germany, and the United States.” used the phrases.
Stating that Ibn Haldun University aims to provide education in which students will be successful in global competition, Prof. Şentürk said, “In order for our students to be successful in global competition, they need to be independent of their ideas. Because in a globalizing world, strong cultures make others dependent. As Ibn Khaldun said, weak civilizations imitate strong civilizations.
Şentürk stated that instead of raising a society that is intellectually dependent on the West, individuals and educational institutions that can generate ideas should be built, and said, “If a country is not independent in terms of its ideas, it cannot be independent in other fields either. The aim of education is to make students intellectually independent. It should be our aim to raise students who can think for themselves and decide for themselves. The aim of our schools and universities should be to produce science and thought. Instead of raising a society that is intellectually dependent on the West, we need to build individuals and educational institutions that can generate ideas on their own.”
Underlining that a youth who can produce and present ideas to the world should be raised, Prof. Şentürk stated that a new question should be asked on this subject and continued as follows:
“We have to ask a new question, what can we give instead of taking from the West? What can we give not only to the West, but to all humanity? Because receiving makes us dependent, to become independent means to give. Now we need to set ourselves a goal to generate new ideas and present these ideas to the whole world. Now we need to set ourselves a goal to generate new ideas and present them to the world. And we want a youth that can generate and present ideas to the world.”
Speaking at the closing of the conference, Ahmet Onur Güngör, Secretary General of the Model United Nations Conference of Beylikdüzü Social Sciences High School, thanked Ibn Haldun University for its contributions, which hosted this event for 4 days. Güngör said, "We set out to raise individuals who are beneficial to our country, the world and humanity, and we saw that we can achieve this in this four-day event. We had disagreements and intellectual discussions in unity, but ultimately we achieved our common goals.”
