Pee Kay: He Puapua is alive and well!

If you want to influence and change thoughts or actions, where do you start? In education of course! In particular, the most impressionable, the younger generation.

Have a look at the NZ Secondary Education Curriculum Renovation.

The Ministry of Education states –

“It is critical our education system continues to evolve and remains focussed on delivering equitable and excellent outcomes for all Aotearoa New Zealand’s children and young people.”

“A five-year program to refresh the New Zealand Curriculum and redesign Te Marautanga o Aotearoa is underway, aimed at ensuring all ākonga experience rich and responsive learning.”

“These changes will also honour our past and obligations to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.”

“…we released the updated curriculum content for Years 0 to 10 English, Te Reo Rangatira, Mathematics and Statistics, and Pāngarau.

Pangarau is mathematics. But the Ministry of Education show their ethnic bias by using Maori language! Why? It is He Puapua in action!

There will also be –

• the draft wāhanga ako for Te Marautanga O Aotearoa – Pūtaiao, Te Ao Māori, Waiora, Toi Ihiihi, Hāngarau, Ngā Reo, and Te Reo Pākeha

• the draft framework for Te Marautanga o Aotearoa.

Marautanga is actually Matauranga that in Maori means knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, encompassing Māori worldviews, skills, and cultural traditions, and is a core concept in the national Māori-medium school curriculum.

Matauranga Maori is an important plank in Maori’s agenda for self governance. Matauranga Maori invades and pervades our governance structures with the education and science disciplines being prime targets!

Our children are being brainwashed and we say nothing!

Using education to influence and change thoughts or actions can be described as employing soft power.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes one prefers or desires. That can be accomplished by coercion and payment or attraction and persuasion.

Soft power employs persuasion and attraction to obtain the preferred outcomes.

The opposite to soft power, hard power, is achieved through military threat or use, coercion, and by means of economic menace or reward.

Joseph Nye, an American political scientist, described education as soft power – i.e. the ability of a state to influence the actions of another state or persons through persuasion or attraction. This has similarities to brainwashing.

By the highly significant date of 2040, the impact and consequence soft power, come brainwashing, is going to be huge.

A country’s soft power, according to Nye, rests on key resources; Its culture and its political values.

As a learned colleague once observed – “This is propaganda on a giant and very sophisticated scale…. a blatant power grab that will occupy the centre space, delivering immense, long term, influence and control.” “The consequences of not challenging and ceding the centre space are irreversible.”

A future book will be written – “Coup by Apathy”.

Pee Kay writes he is from a generation where common sense, standards, integrity and honesty are fundamental attributes. This article was first published HERE