The school’s culture from foreigners’ eyes.

Today we discussed Noergaards Hojskole’s culture. We tried to track down the school’s values and recognize artifacts. For all of you who do not know what artifacts are: ‘ To study artifacts is like a geologist studying the lava from a volcano after it has been active. It is not studying the core of it, but it is an evidence of the core’.

First and foremost we talked about “school’s symbol”. There are lots of symbol in this school – like “Gudar”, “School Logo”. And each of them has a meaning. If we know what that means, we can know more about this school.

Logo
Cross – faith, eternity
Ship – Vikings = action & fighting & daring to move
Anchor – hope
Horse – old symbol for hope
Gudar
Gudar’s daughter went away from Gudar with her boyfriend. So Gudar threw big stone after them. The big stone tore apart the earth. The river appeared in that row.

These things show us that this school guides us into a positive future.
Symbols are part of a tradition, so much respected in that school. Signs of attention put to the tradition are visible when you first enter the school. Faces of former principals are looking at you from the left, and at the right we can find a portrait of school’s founders. The name of the school is also a surname of the founder. In the basement we can see a collection of 62 photographs of former students dating back to early 70’s. Tradition is also respected when it comes to rituals and ceremonies. Morning assemblies, common singing, putting names on the door, ringing s bell during the dinner, we all believe it is a part of it.

Secondly, attention is put to social aspect of being a student and importance of finding your way in a group and staying fit.
You can find many games, which helps you to make new friendship. Furthermore, you can do sport a lot which is good for your health. Student’s well-being is looked after in many ways, for example: kitchen, moving in the morning.
Finally, drinking in the school is allowed even if not so healthy but useful for feeling good and learning languages.
To sum up, tradition, drinking, and sports make an interesting mixture. If you come here you won’t regret it.

Laszlo, Aga, Tomas, Yoshimi