 Growing up was no different than it was for most children in the Faroes at the time, and he was engaged in odd jobs while not attending school.He studied under Jacob Jacobsen from Tórshavn, and he was a member of the first graduating class of the Faroese Teachers School (), after having also spent an academic year at a folk high school in Denmark.Jacobsen's wife, Anna Kjelnæs, had also attended a folk high school in Denmark, and this is where Rasmussen first became familiar with the folk high school movement.