The main reason was that the Ottoman empire was in very slow decline during these years; when other major European powers were starting to industrialize themselves. Because the Ottoman Empire couldn't keep up ,they suffered the consequences in the form of a later period of industrialization.
This method even has a name; it's called Socratian Method (obviously, named after me) and it's a method that invited others to do critical thinking rather than give them ready-made answers. <span />
