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It is possible to get subsidised rooms/studios through "study circles" for music or theatre (for example), under certain conditions for accountability.
"Folk high school" is equivalent to community college.
> 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.
> 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.
Libraries are already free. The money here is supposedly used for coffee (or whatever) while meeting and discussing books.
Damn 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...
This all needs people who are engaged in the movement and money, not a lot, but you do need a steady supply of money.
Excellent 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.
There are strains of ideas and phenomena here that are probably not decipherable to outsiders. Applying for subsidies for "study circles" would be considered as abuse of the system or even fraudulent in some circles. In other circles, receiving any subsidy from the government is considered justified and right by default.
Its effect on economic development is probably negligible (but how would you determine that?). It can rather be viewed as one of many tolerated ways of receiving money in exchange for the effort of doing the paperwork.
It's a phenomenon that looks different to different people.
This sort of article is just window-dressing for what it’s really like to live in this mostly restricted and limited land, out in the boondocks.
Swedes living abroad probably actually believe this nostalgic fiction of their homeland.
Unfortunately, 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.
Is there anything similar in other European countries as well?
> 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.
Is there anything similar in other European countries as well?
I got my first exposure in computing in part because my dad agreed to teach computers for Folkeuniversitetet/Friundervisningen in the early 80's, but he needed to borrow one to learn to use it first...
In Norway it sprung out of students in the 1860's who wanted to make education more broadly available (Henrik Ibsen was one of the founding students, as was Bjørnstjerne Bjørson, perhaps less known outside Norway but the first Norwegian Nobel laureate in literature)