Why study at all?
Learning is a lifelong process. It makes us be the best version of ourselves, develop as individuals and it brings the feeling that it is wonderful to be who we are.
For me, the two most important things in life are love and knowledge. Knowledge gives us security, value, meaning. We can never predict the future with certainty, it is mysterious and can bring us happiness and sadness and laughter and crying, but the only thing we have forever, that no one can take away from us, is our knowledge. It has been so since the beginning of time…
A philosopher from Prijena was the only one who carried with him a small bundle fleeing with his compatriots from the invasion of the Persian army. When people carrying cars overloaded with furniture, dresses, and food asked him where his things were, he said:
Omnia mea mecum porto – I carry all my things with me, thus saying that all his wealth is knowledge!
Nothing has changed even after 2.5 millennia.
Love illuminates us with the desire to share knowledge – and every time we share something with others, every time we give, we enrich ourselves. People who love to learn and love to impart knowledge are connected by beautiful threads with those who want that knowledge and those connections last as long as we live.
My greatest role models and donors were my teachers. Those from school and those from life, sometimes completely unknown people with whom I had only one meeting, one short conversation but which contributed to me finding out a seemingly simple thing that changed my life.
It is no coincidence that I am also a teacher. After 12,000 lessons to students from all over the world, I decided to establish my online school for learning Swedish.
It will be my honor and great pleasure to teach you Swedish but also some other things.
Welcome to the Swedish Academy of Arts!