For a generation who have been appallingly let down over the Covid period by Government and education decisions, the Auckland University desire to force you into Māori courses seemed not just ill advised, but cruel.
Kids of the past half dozen years have been soaked, to the point of drowning, in Māori issues and doctrine in their schooling and they are sick of it.
The Labour Government's obsession with race has had the opposite effect intended. It didn’t cajole and encourage, it rammed and forced and overwhelmed us with condescending overlord-type instruction.
University is not about being told what to learn, it was supposed to be the opposite.
From our personal experience this year it appeared to us that the course was not just ill conceived, but shonkily run by people barely qualified to deliver a curriculum that seemed largely made up with no real focus or discipline.
Students hated it, resented it, and were dragged kicking and screaming through it.
Not just that, but to add insult to injury you had to pay for it. They forced you into it, then sent you a bill.
As in all these areas of race the trick has always been that if you seek it, want it, desire it, whether broader study or the specific language, it's freely available and fill your boots.
But the determination to square peg it only ever led to pushback and resentment.
The last thing I would have thought universities wanted to do was put people off study.
Once again from personal experience, we know people who not only avoided Auckland University, but in fact ended up studying offshore. None of this is a desirable outcome for the country.
The upside is when asked by the university the feedback was as you would have expected. And to their credit they have at least read the room and backed off.
But not before another year for thousands has been lost in a whirlpool of woke-enforced nonsense that never had to be.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
The Labour Government's obsession with race has had the opposite effect intended. It didn’t cajole and encourage, it rammed and forced and overwhelmed us with condescending overlord-type instruction.
University is not about being told what to learn, it was supposed to be the opposite.
From our personal experience this year it appeared to us that the course was not just ill conceived, but shonkily run by people barely qualified to deliver a curriculum that seemed largely made up with no real focus or discipline.
Students hated it, resented it, and were dragged kicking and screaming through it.
Not just that, but to add insult to injury you had to pay for it. They forced you into it, then sent you a bill.
As in all these areas of race the trick has always been that if you seek it, want it, desire it, whether broader study or the specific language, it's freely available and fill your boots.
But the determination to square peg it only ever led to pushback and resentment.
The last thing I would have thought universities wanted to do was put people off study.
Once again from personal experience, we know people who not only avoided Auckland University, but in fact ended up studying offshore. None of this is a desirable outcome for the country.
The upside is when asked by the university the feedback was as you would have expected. And to their credit they have at least read the room and backed off.
But not before another year for thousands has been lost in a whirlpool of woke-enforced nonsense that never had to be.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
10 comments:
A small victory due to public protest - but easily reversed by another Left govt.
Many students already would have taken similar courses in high school (or earlier). The Auckland courses were basically designed for 14-15-year olds, lots of reflective touchy-feely stuff. Many or most university students interested in the big wide world.... Any Maori courses placed in larger global context would be more appealing, but takes much more work and knowledge and necessarily minimizes the specialness of Maori.
RE: “the course was not just ill conceived, but shonkily run by people barely qualified to deliver a curriculum that seemed largely made up with no real focus or discipline”.
Getting rid of WTF is one thing. The harder business is going to be getting rid of the people who think such nonsense is the role of university. They are many and they are deeply entrenched in NZ universities. But for the good of the nation, masses of them need to be relieved of their cosy positions.
This will be as 'optional' as vaccinations were back in the good old days of COVID. Sure, you don't 'need' to take the course, but it will be 'noted'. And perhaps those who note it might make things difficult for you.
Of course, Sayre's Law applies - academic politics is so bitter because the stakes are so low.
The left must be so proud of themselves, total destruction of the society they live in to the point where most of them are now out of work, so guess what, they choose to blame this govt?
I don't even understand their logic!!! Everything they touch gets stuffed so they blame everyone else. We mop up their mess only for these dunning Kruger types to do it all over again.
The solution is simple, A simple competence test to enter parliament would pretty much rid us of all the left parties. I mean, why do we let failed people run a country and more importantly they believe they actually can ( dunning Kruger). Is there actually any successful person in the left parties who has run a large organisation or anything resembling?
Their logic is simple: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution."
What other academic institutions have mandatory Maori courses ?
What other NZ institutions have mandatory Maori courses ?
Each and every one is forced indoctrination.
A technique that Goebbels mastered.
For the benefit of newer generations, Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda for Hitler's Third Reich, in which he conned the German people into believing that Hitler should run the world and Jews should be eliminated.
Anon at 8;07 you have hit the jackpot re competence tests. No-one should be permitted to enter Parliament who has no record of success, lacks experience and maturity, pledges allegiance to any political party and is under the age of 45 yrs. You could also add, is lacking in integrity, honesty and objectivity. Sounds tough for modern generations but was fundamental in previous times.
Oh and one other point. Don’t pay them and limit their service to 6 years. With conditions like these you would never see another group of malevolent morons in the NZ Parliament akin to the last Labour mob.
Māori courses should obviously still be taught in schools and University's it would be a travesty to ignore a culture.
Just make it optional like every other language course or alternative credit course at university.
It would probably be more interesting than some of the crap courses I was faced with as a soft credit option.
Putting aside the absurdity of this course, a recent ACT newsletter stated "Over 8,000 students were compelled to take the paper, paying around $1,000 each, or up to $5,730 for international students. The course has also cost taxpayers around $14 million in subsidies." We don't know how many foreign students were compelled to take the course, but let's say conservatively it was 20% of that 8,000. Doing the math - that means in the ballpark of $30M was spent on this nonsense. That is simply outrageous and heads should roll!
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