``And he reached the conclusion, after considerable deep and painful thought, that writing in the language pattern they had written in no longer would work, and that they had to change literally the basic script of their language to Western script. He then decided that the only way to make that change was to do it suddenly and decisively....So in a very poor country, with very few resources...he said, `We have to enlist every educated Turk and we have to turn the nation into a classroom.' And in six months' time they transformed Turkish society. It is one of the great heroic acts of the twentieth century...done by an act of inspired emotional and moral leadership by someone who was regarded as the savior of the nation."