A brief history of the folk high school

A brief history of the folk high school
Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig
https://danishfolkhighschools.com/about-folk-high-schools/history/

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The idea of the folk high schools emerged in the 1830s. The founding father was N.F.S. Grundtvig – a Danish theologian, writer, philosopher, historian, educationist and politician.

In the early 1800’s, thoughts of enlightenment in Denmark were peaking and the tradition of national romanticism were developing. Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783 -1872) was deeply inspired of these thoughts, and after personal experience from the Trinity College in England, he developed the concept of the folk high school.

Grundtvig identified a growing democratic need in society – a need of enlightening the often both uneducated and poor peasantry. This social group had neither the time nor the money to enroll at a university and needed an alternative. The aim of the folk high school was to help people qualify as active and engaged members of society, to give them a movement and the means to change the political situation from below and be a place to meet across social boarders.
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