Celalettin Ökten, who spent his life in education and teaching, sees teaching as the profession of a prophet. In the words of Sadettin Ökten, “The incident of teaching never ended. It would always continue at home, on the road, while walking, in coffee. He was always reading and telling. He would argue. That's how it passed. When he passed away, he died in front of his lectern,” he said. Celal Hodja, who is very interested in the education of his children, wanted his daughters to study medicine and his son Sadettin to study engineering. According to Sadettin Ökten, his father, Celal Hodja, was an Ottoman intellectual. He is a city dweller who represented the Ottoman interpretation of Islamic civilization during the period he lived in. Although he spent his childhood in Trabzon, after migrating to Istanbul, he saw this place as the representative city of civilization, and he cared a lot about being from Istanbul in terms of language and pronunciation, and also manners.
AN EXTRAORDINARY ENGINEER
In the book, Prof. Dr. Sadettin Ökten, after graduating from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Faculty of Civil Engineering, started his academic life at the faculty of architecture. Ökten, who has been doing academic studies in the USA and Belgium, is retiring from Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Architecture, where he took his professorship. Ökten; focuses on the concept of "civilization vision", which carries traces of its own accumulation and experience, starting from the historical acquis on the concept of civilization. It deals with the conception of civilization, which Yılmaz Özakpınar interpreted by being inspired by the theory of civilization and by bringing new expansions to this theory, as a general framework for the basic value system that society believes in. According to him, this system of values can also be a revelation-based belief, a metaphysical belief, a doctrine, or a transcendent or rational sanctuary based on different values. In Ökten's conception of civilization; Three basic features stand out: the system of values, the behavior or form determined according to this system, and the moral and legal rules that control these forms.