Show folk schools the danish folk high schools with students ranging in age from 18 to 24 years exist not to give students information or skills but to awaken their personalities and to develop their sense of responsibility nearly one third of the farmers of denmark have spent at least one term of five months at these rural private adult schools in which there are no entrance examinations and no final examinations the schools are sought by children of the well to do as well as by the poorer classes C cultural ua tural and non vocational subjects singing and gymnastics are predominant in the curricula and the lecture method prevails with a minimum of note taking and library research all AH the students live together for the term as the enlarged family of the principal of the school and his wife sharing the domestic chores and enjoying the hospitality of a good home A deeply religious spirit pervades the school but no formal services are held or denominationalism tolerated |