Technology

The compulsory education system must equip every New

Zealander with the skills and knowledge necessary to live a

prosperous life with dignity in the technologically enhanced

lifestyle of a Knowledge Society. To prosper they need to be

innovative and entrepreneurial in outlook, and take

responsibility for re-educating themselves to use the benefits of

technology. The achievement of dignity involves an

understanding of the inter-relationships of technology, society

and the environment to promote harmony with others and

avoid the development of underclasses in New Zealand society.

The New Zealand Technology curriculum is vital and worldleading.

Technological practice helps students develop skills of

innovation and entrepreneurship for their future prosperity.

Technological literacy helps them to live with dignity in a

technological world