Education in Tonga - Schools in Tonga, Futa Helu, Tonga High School, Ocean of Light International School, Tupou College, ?Atenisi Institute (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Schools in Tonga, Futa Helu, Tonga High School, Ocean of Light International School, Tupou College, ?atenisi Institute, ?atenisi University. Excerpt: Futa Helu (17 June 1934 2 February 2010) was a Tongan philosopher, historian, and educator. He studied philosophy under the Australian empiricist John Anderson and in 1963 launched an educational institute named Atenisi (Tongan for Athens, to pay homage to the ancient Greek philosophers, Herakleitos in particular). The institute began as a continuing education programme for civil servants, then initiated a high school in 1964 and a university in 1975. Helu was born on 17 June 1934 in the village of Lotofoa on the island of Foa in the Haapai archipelago in the (Polynesian) Kingdom of Tonga. Helu, in fact, is a minor chiefly title, carrying the task of managing both the people and land of the village. In Haapai, Futa was a bright, although headstrong, student. In 1947 he was selected to be part of the founding class of the newly established Tonga high school sited in Tonga's capital, the school being a project of a promising Crown Prince who would accede to the throne as Tufahau Tupou IV in 1967. Helu studied in Australia at Newington College (19531955) and the University of Sydney (195761). At Sydney he focused on philosophy, English literature, mathematics and physics. Back in Tonga he did not become as one might have expected a government bureaucrat, but held himself out as tutor to those having trouble keeping up at school. His way of teaching soon became famous, and many Tongans who are now important figures claim he instilled a love of learning that impelled their careers. Atenisi Institute was initially a downtown night school providing continuing education for civil servants, evolving in... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4939991