Education in the Ottoman Empire

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In the Ottoman Empire each, and every millet (religious group) established a schooling system serving its members.^[1] Education, therefore, was largely divided on ethnic and religious lines: few non-Muslims attended schools for Muslim students and vice versa. Most institutions that did serve all ethnic and religious groups taught in French or in other languages.^[2]