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unusual facts about Folk High School


Teremiski

The village, with less than 20 houses, one shop and a bus stop, is nevertheless the location of a summer university, one of a number of such folk institutions of learning known in Poland from before World War II.


Alina Cała

In the 1980s she also co-founded the folk high school in Zbrosza Duża, perhaps the first institution for adult education independent from the communist authorities since the end of World War II.

Folkeopplysningsprisen

It is often traced back to N. F. S. Grundtvig's folk high school movement in Denmark in the 1840s and the use of study circles in Swedish labour- and temperance movements in the very beginning of the 20th century (1902).

Gotland School of Music Composition

The Gotland School of Music Composition (sv. Gotlands tonsättarskola) is a folk high school for musical composition based in Visby, Gotland.

Sjölunden

Two of the weeks they are given language classes in the town of Trosa by Stensund Folk High School.

St. Luke's Church, Copenhagen

In 1892, a temporary church was therefore consecrated in the former gym hall of a local folk high school to relieve the pressure on Frederiksberg Church and the young Harald Ostenfeld, later Bishop of Zealand, was instituted as its first pastor.


see also

Stege, Denmark

Rødkilde Højskole, a folk high school just south of Stege completed by Ludvig Fenger in 1866.