Lives of Informal Learning

This chapter considers several personal accounts from the time by several individuals. Personal accounts from Christos Christovasilis, Alexandros Papadiamandis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nikiforos Lytras and Nicholaos Gyzis help shed light on the impact that informal learning had on these individuals. Much of the autobiographical literature suggests that the stories learned by these individuals were both religious and secular in nature. Most of them learned stories from ancient Greek mythology and history, as well as biblical stories, local folk tales, and more contemporary tales that dealt with Greece’s Ottoman and revolutionary pasts.