ISLAM

THE CHRISTIAN AND MOSLEM ALPHABETS 109
opened my eyes to see how the whole system
was corrupt from top to bottom."*
Next Mr. Levonian ROCS on to attack the character
of lectures in higher schools and colleges.
Speaking
about a lecturer of physics he says
: "I do not
think he lacked knowledge, but he was a man who
lacked character. Every day he came ten or fifteen
minutes later than the hour assigned and not content
with the loss of ten minutes in each hour, he
turned the hands of the clock ten or fifteen minutes
forward in order to finish the class soon !
knew about it,
Everybody
and they laughed when he came out
of the class-room ; they were even pleased with it
Anyhow, the Director never spoke one word to that
man about this thing ;
lie himself was also pleased."*
Again Mr. Levonian points out that :
The chief trouble WT.S with the character of the
teachers ; they did not do their work faithfully.
Some of them spent their nights in drinkingand
other vices and came to the school next
morning with red eyes and broken nerves. Some
of the students did the same also. What could
one expect from such a school system ? What
. . .
good can one expect out of the work of teachers
with such bad character ?"f
Behold how an educated Turk refutes the charges
levelled against the Turkish character. Writes Mr.
Khalil Halid Bey thus :
" It is a very unchivalrous charge on the part of
* Vide Moslem Mentality, pp. 94.
-j- Ibid page 95.