Todd Muller, MP for Bay of Plenty. Photo/file
School: I remember mostly counting down the hours and minutes until lunchtime where I could kick a ball around with my friends and eat whatever my mum had packed for me to eat that day.
Probably like most people, I only began to appreciate having an education later on when
I went to university and applied for my first job. However, I specifically remember that familiar question which exasperated many of my teachers: "What's the point of learning this?"
Kids raise a great question with that. How are we preparing them for their future?
Two interesting announcements came up this week.
The first was that over $155,000 will be given to Oropi School and two others in Tauranga to boost the number of classes in Japanese and Mandarin. If New Zealand is going to produce its own citizens capable of working and living in international environments, it starts right here at a young age getting immersed in language and culture.
