text:  Each of the smaller mosques has attached to it an elementary school superintended by the imam where the children of the lower classes are taught to read and write and to repeat the Koran by heart; while those intended for the liberal professions undergo a long and laborious course of study at the medressehs or colleges of the great mosques some of which are intended to train youth in general literature or qualify them for government employments while others are devoted to the study of theology and jurisprudence