In this episode of the podcast I spoke with Mette and Lars Højland, a Danish couple with decades of experience in folk high school education who are exploring new ways to take the essence of this transformative pedagogy beyond the walls of formal institutions and beyond the borders of Denmark, including to China and other lands. Mette grew up within the world of free schools and folk high schools inspired by the ideas of N. F. S. Grundtvig, the 19th century Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, and instigator of the folk school concept. Drawing on 22 years of teaching in several folk high schools, Mette has written a short and engaging book entitled What you say, makes me think: Folk high school from within, which uses anecdotes from her own teaching and insights from Grundtvig and other thinkers to explore the sometimes ...