Enderun School
Elite bureaucratic school in Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Enderun School (Ottoman Turkish: اندرون مکتب, romanized: Enderûn Mektebi) was a palace school and boarding school within Topkapi Palace. It was mostly for princes of the court and the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire. Students here were primarily recruited via devşirme,[1] a system of the Islamization of Christian slave children for serving the Ottoman government in bureaucratic, managerial, and Janissary military positions.[2] Over the centuries, the Enderun School was fairly successful in generating Ottoman statesmen by drawing among the empire's various ethnic groups and giving them a common Muslim education. The school was run by the "Inner Service" (Enderûn) of the Ottoman palace and had both academic and military purposes.[3] The graduates were expected to devote themselves to government service and be free of links to lower social groups.[2]
The Enderun School's gifted education program has been called the world's first institutionalized education for the gifted.[4][5][6]