Goodisson, William: A historical and topographical essay upon the islands of Corfu, Leucadia, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Zante: with remarks upon the character manners and customs of the Ionian Greeks : descriptions of the scenery and remains of antiquity discovered therein, and reflections upon the Cyclopian ruins, illustrated by maps and sketches (London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1822)

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CHAPTER XIV.
Education—Emigration for the acquirement of know-
ledge—College intended to be built at Ithaca—Lan-
guage—Facility with which the Greeks acquire foreign
languages—Society—degradation of the women-—mu-
sic and dancing—Choro Cretico—Interior ornament
of Greek houses—Subserviency—Hospitality—Living
—Provisions—Climate—Marriage—Funerals.

THE education of the lower classes is by no
means so neglected, as the little attention paid by
the islanders to other important objects would lead
one to conclude it to be. There are few villages in
which the elementary part of education, reading at
least, is not taught by one or more masters who
are usually priests. This is an advantage which,
perhaps, in most catholic countries also, balances
in a great measure the evil, which is considered to
affect society, in the poverty and want of better
education of the lower order of the priesthood. The
profound reverence, which the sacred habit always
inspires in these countries, cannot but have a
tendency to render the precepts taught by their