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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by 'Maurice P. Dunlap 



A COUNTRY RAILROAD CROSSING WHICH SUGGESTS HOLLAND 



The Danish landscape not infrequently resembles that other land where windmills, canals, 

 wooden shoes, and tulip fields are also distinctive features. 



repute, and to induce them to believe 

 that a certain amount of happiness is 

 within their grasp. 



The ordinary educator in England and 

 the United States would look with horror 

 on the absence of discipline in these 

 schools of the people; but, as all the 

 students choose the schools themselves 

 and are actuated by the desire to do team- 

 work in order that there may be no dis- 

 tractions, outside discipline is as unneces- 

 sary as it is in the drawing-room. 



DANISH STUDENTS HAVE LITTLE INTEREST 

 IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 



The men show, as a rule, little interest 

 in the relations of nations to one an- 

 other — that is, the political relations. 

 This and the neglect of the serious study 

 of finance and economic questions of uni- 

 versal importance are the only defects in 

 the system of the high schools. 



Since the World War, however, it is 

 probable that the close connection of 

 political with economic life outside of 

 Denmark may be realized. But the lack 



of attention given to international eco- 

 nomics and the belief that the rights of 

 the worker must imply certain privileges, 

 because his side of a contract is more 

 "human," has much to do with the pres- 

 ent financial crisis in Denmark. This is, 

 however, being adjusted. 



As to internal politics, the interest of 

 the students is shown by the fact that 

 more than 30 per cent of the members 

 of parliament had been pupils in the high 

 schools. 



But it must be remembered that m 

 Denmark politics is never looked on as 

 something apart from the welfare of the 

 people. The Dane knows exactly what 

 he wants, and he will endure no merely 

 personally ambitious leader. 



If any politician attempts to interfere 

 with a cooperative movement in the coun- 

 try, to deflect the thoughts of the people 

 from the processes by which their country 

 has been made prosperous, he is doomed 

 at once to political extinction. 



Team-work — you may call it coopera- 

 tion if you will — is at the very heart of 



