Description

The legend was created during the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years and was imprinted in art. Until the middle of the 20th century, Greek schools taught that Greek education was systematically persecuted in the first century and a half after the Ottoman conquest and that this led the Church to the secret operation of such schools.

The study of Greek education in the Ottoman Empire has been associated since the 19th century with the examination of the legend of the secret school. Recently, in informal traditional historiography to substantiate the existence of the “secret school”, 16th century testimonies of general ignorance or in some places the arbitrariness of Ottoman officials against educational institutions have been used, which, however, had the scope of Empire, Muslims and non-Muslims.