Dahle says that it is important to have high–quality learning. Thus the countryside is better suited for such studies, rather than lectures in a lecture hall. Hæverstølen as a place for teaching helps to make visible and stregthens the values of this subject. There is always a political aspect to this. If town's people are to be encoraged to settle in outlying districts, they must have a chance to feel what its like to live in the country in close contact with nature. Many of these who have taken this course of study have subsequently found work in the countryside. EP0705