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Educational Progress 357
made compulsory. The establishment of these schools
has had a remarkable influence on popular develop-
ment. Swedish popular education is not surpassed in
any country and is equaled in few. Among those who
have labored most efficiently for the development of
popular education in Sweden the statesman and his-
torian Fredrik Ferdinand Carlson deserves especial
mention.
PublicHigh Schools. These have been established to
enable the young to increase their knowledge and to
widen their outlook. The father of the public school
was the warm-hearted Danish poet and orator, Bishop
Grundtvig. His great idea was that the public high
school should help the young students to make their
knowledge fruitful in actual life, train them for good
and useful citizenship, not to draw the sons and daugh-
ters away from manual labor, but to return them to it
with new devotion for their life’s work and with in-
creased powers for it.
Other Schools and Institutions. At the same time
that the public schools were established, men began
to provide for vocational schools- for the training of
specialists along various economic lines. The demand
for such schools has become more and more urgent as
production has become more and more dependent on
scientific investigation.
B. MUSEUMS
Skansen, an Outdoor Museum. At Skansen, on Djur-
garden, an island in the Stockholm archipelago, is the
world’s greatest outdoor museum. It was opened to the
public in 1891. Here may be seen the modes of life of
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