A Historical and an Educational Analysis to Decode the Gifted Individual Type Intended to Educate in the Ottoman Empire by Searching the Process of Mimar Sinan s Education

This study accentuates that each society has its own unique and giftedideal type to rise. And also it will be focused on that those special terms of the societydetermine the characteristics of that ideal type. In order to get the point, educationalexperiences in the Ottoman period will be inspected attentively. By using differentsources, it will be elaborated further that the Ottoman society composed an electiveeducation not an elitist education. In the Ottoman elective education system, individualswere elected according to their abilities from Acemi Oğlanlar Quarry (CandidateJanissaries) to Enderun School. This elective education system might be a model for thepresent. Especially it will be investigated how Sinan bin Abdulmennan was discoveredand how he became one of the greatest figures in the architectural area. The mainpurpose of this study is to search historical origins of the Ottoman gifted educationsystem thoroughly if there was any application to adapt for the gifted education in thepresent.