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This Danish School Teaches Through LARPing… And It Works

By Rob Bricken Published July 28, 2014, 9:00 pm ET

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While America keeps trying to devise a more standard standardized test system, the Osterskov Efterskole in Hobro, Denmark, is busy using live-action role-playing to teach its students while they’re having fun. I know, it sounds insane, but watch this documentary and tell me you don’t wish you’d gone there for school

Thanks to Lizzie Stark for the tip!

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