Abstract
Nurettin Topu is one of the prominent educator and moralist of Republican period. His struggle for life, stability, seriousness, methods, concepts that he used, and obtaining of knowledge, makes him significantly different among the contemporary intellectual. Topu thought with every issue of the life and have made a special place for education and remarked that Turkey has deep rooted educational problems. According to him, nationalistic character of Turkish education has serious problems. Educational system quite troubled in term of both aims and philosophy. Western origin systems have crippled the educational system. The initiation of this bad situation goes too back. In addition to him, madrassas became a center of scholastic, and the new schools which was opened instead of them, continued the same legacy by imitating Western life. Foreign schools, teaching with foreign language and private schools are other basic problems of the educational system. There are the great depression in the field of teaching of religion and morale. Topu severely criticized the religious functionaries and teaching of religion and morale methods after 1950. He defended an educational life that completely national and under control of the state, but he definitely rejected religious education given by the state. In this paper, it has been argued that how Nurettin Topu who is recognized with his pro-conservative identity and known as the leading name of "Ethics of Revolt" as well as the defender of Anatolianism policy evaluated the different problems of education and educators, how he analysed and criticised such matters and what kind of proposals he offered on these problems by a way of criticizing some of his views.