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title: "Love these Danish kindergartens"
description: "Children are running wild in the mud, climbing high into trees and playing with knives, but no one is telling them off. We are looking at life in kindergarten… Danish-style."
url: https://www.mathys.to/writing/inspiration/love-these-danish-kindergartens-11133/
section: inspiration
published: 2016-06-29
last_updated: 2026-05-04
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# Love these Danish kindergartens

*Children are running wild in the mud, climbing high into trees and playing with knives, but no one is telling them off. We are looking at life in kindergarten… Danish-style.*

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> "You have to first learn them to be interested in learning."

![](https://static.tagthelove.com/cms/250_c3c60c6cdc216c06_1280box.png)

> "Only once I had to go to the hospital with a kid who had a serious injury in 17 years. It was a parent who drove over the foot of one of the kids."

![](https://static.tagthelove.com/cms/250_f6d10fbef23406a5_1280box.png)