A modern school thinker from 1836 - oral, respect and conversation
The living word In Grundtvig’s preface to his 1832 study of Scandinavian mythology, Nordens mytologi [Nordic mythology], the first glimpses can be seen of the Danish folk high school of the future: There will be the common centre from which the institution branches out into all the main lines of practical life, and back to which it endeavours to gather and unite all the energies of society. Here, all the civil servants of the state who do not need scholarship but life, insight and practical ability, and all those who wish to belong to the rank of the educated should get the very best chance of developing themselves in a suitable direction and of getting to know one another. 6 Although Grundtvig’s ideas for a folk high school are in the merest embryonic form in ‘Nordic mythology', nevertheless, this work does contain a full dress-rehearsal for Grundtvig’s later attacks on the ‘Schools for Death’, as he called the Latin grammar schools. Latin is ridiculed mercile