ADULT EDUCATION
SPREAD IN DENMARK.
The growth of the People’s University Movement in Denmark was discussed by Mr. E. J. Bror C. Muller, formerly of Copenhagen, in the course of an address at the Auckland Rotary Club’s luncheon- on Monday. Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie presided over an attendance which included, among the visitors, Dr. E. Marsden, Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Mr. C. J. Donaldson, of Christchurch.
Although Denmark was not much larger than the Auckland Province, it possessed from 60 to 70 people’s residential schools for adults, the cost per pupil working out at about £1 a week. Cultural subjects only, such as philosophy, politics, economics and religion, were taught, controversial subjects being treated in a purely objective way. The result was that whereas 100 years ago 80 per cent, of the peasants of Denmark' were illiterate, they were now regarded as the most widely-cultured farming community in . Europe. It was in no small measure due to the influence of this movement that in the last 60 years the farmers of Denmark had reclaimed for intensive cultivation an area of waste land as large as the provinces they lost to Germany.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1933, Page 15
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