ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the social profile of the nineteenth-century Armenian community of Istanbul in the midst of rapid social change and to compare Misak Kocunyan's discourse with those of his contemporaries. Misak Kocunyan strongly criticized the domination of the institution of the khilavuz in gender relations. He explained that the word khilavuz came from Turkish and originally meant "guide." In one of Kasim's short stories in his collection, Life Landscapes, is a vignette discussing a meeting of Armenian educators, the agenda of which was the content of Armenian school curricula in order to provide students with professional training and education. The main concern of the participants was to outline a training plan so that when students graduated from school, they would be able to earn a living. Kasim criticized the educational system's curricula for its emphasis on useless bookish knowledge and pseudo-pragmatism, and graduating students without applicable skills.
