Hear a 4th Century effort, that is now recognised as one of the first times that someone bothered to set another culture’s language to writing.

Hear how different the world was 600 years ago – and the activism of a few that sparked global change.

Hear about an 8th Century French king, and what motivated him to do something that most around the globe would never yet have considered.

Hear about a 16th Century monk who challenged the Empire in the name of truth, and free thinking.

Hear about how Luther’s ideas developed a few years later into the idea of educating even the poor – so they could read and consider the truths of religion for themselves.

Hear about the global activism of Christian missionaries in the previous 4 centuries, who’s efforts established globally much of the thinking we have today about education, justice, healthcare, charity and more.

Hear about New Zealand’s first school to teach reading and writing – and at a time when most Europeans had no regard for any ‘native’, and slavery was still in full swing globally.

Hear about the effects of the colonial mindset in the late 1800s, as it squashed the earlier Māori and missionary mindset, leading to the closing of all Māori schools.

Hear a summary of how the shutdown of Māori education and identity came to be reversed, leading to the current era of bicultural restoration.

Hear about the nation our early missionaries came from, to understand the radical activism that our nation benefited from until shortly after the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.