A [Danish Folk High School](https:\/\/www.danishfolkhighschools.com\/about-folk-high-schools\/what-is-a-folk-high-school) is “a non-formal residential school offering learning opportunities in almost any subject.”<\/p>\n
More generally, it’s a place where post-high-school age students can go live for a while and learn about community practices together.<\/p>\n
The book _[The Nordic Secret](https:\/\/www.nordicsecret.org\/)_ argues that the invention of the folk high school in the 19th century is key to the rise of the once-poor Nordic societies since then. The “folk-bildung” it developed can be described as “[character formation, cultural heritage and developing a moral backbone all in one](https:\/\/nordicbildung.org\/folk-bildung\/).”<\/p>\n
A sense of belonging; a connection with nature; social responsiblity; conscience and morality–how many of these are lacking in our current education systems?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A [Danish Folk High School](https:\/\/www.danishfolkhighschools.com\/about-folk-high-schools\/what-is-a-folk-high-school) is “a non-formal residential school offering learning opportunities in almost any subject.” More generally, it’s a place where post-high-school age students can go live for a while and learn about community practices together. The book _[The Nordic Secret](https:\/\/www.nordicsecret.org\/)_ argues that the invention of the folk high school in the 19th…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,391],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-6009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-2","category-sociology","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1yV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}