Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
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Re: Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
#2Is there anything similar in other European countries as well?
Re: Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
#3Excellent article, and a very interesting look into how a society may accelerate its development.
Perhaps maker spaces are born of a similar ethos, though of course very stem driven.
Unfortunately it seems that as formal education has become more institutionalised and more necessary as a marker for employability, doing anything remotely 'bookish' in your free time has become almost definitively 'uncool'. A shame.
Re: Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
#4Excellent article, and a very interesting look into how a society may accelerate its development. Perhaps maker spaces are born of a similar ethos, though of course very stem driven. Unfortunately it seems that as formal education has become more institutionalised and more necessary as a marker for employability, doing anything remotely 'bookish' in your free time has become almost definitively 'uncool'. A shame.
> doing anything remotely 'bookish' in your free time has become almost definitively 'uncool'
This is a very serious problem and I can see this every day with my kids. They have so much peer pressure on them that they find it very hard to do those things that they would like to do because it makes them 'uncool'. The result is that they have a part of their life that they keep away from their school mates. Supporting them in their endeavors helps them but it isn't enough to fully compensate for the desire to belong and have approval from their peers.
Re: Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
#5Is there anything similar in other European countries as well?
In Portugal there are Cultural Associations, which have a certain legal standing with associated formalities. Sometimes they even have premises they run for meetings etc. They tend to be formed according to particular interests, if I understand correctly. Hopefully someone from Portugal can elaborate on this.
Re: Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
#6> Bildung etymologically refers to shaping yourself in the image (das Bild) of God
Is this really true? The liked wikipedia page does not seem to support that.
Re: Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
#7> one can debate the morality of funding book clubs with taxpayers' money
You could debate it but I would find it hard to find better uses of that money if it is spent on those would otherwise not be able to afford such things.
Re: Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
#8Damn that sounds awesome! As a Swede myself I feel like I missed out, and I wonder why I never saw anything like this in my youth?
My best theory is there wasn't much in the very rural area where I grew up. There wasn't much of anything other than nature to be fair, so that kinda makes sense I guess...
Re: Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
#9> This is a linkpost for https://escapingflatland.substack.com/p/popular-education-in...
Dang, the link is just a ripoff repost; could you fix the URL to be the original above?
I saw the same thing (“this is a link post”) earlier this week and only now realize it wasn’t a one off.
Re: Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
#10Unfortunately, the current conservative/nationalistic government has been trying to get it shut down. They use the guide of "tough on crime" of course, but they have been opposing money for people of lesser means for a long, long time.