In the lonely homestead scattered along New Zealand’s rugged coastline, as in the remote England farms and high country sheep stations, children are being educated. This is their story: the story of the correspondence school pupils whose playgrounds are the rocky coastline, the native bush, the snow-clad mountain country; whose classroom is in the family living room or kitchen.– From the narration
The lessons have travelled many hundreds of miles so that small fry on a lighthouse can learn the three ‘R’s.– From the narration
My nearest girlfriend lives 20 miles away — I have met her once. We used to have a pet deer, but he got too wild and bunted us with his antlers ... so we had to shoot him for dog tucker.– A pupil from a sheep station in the Alps talks about her life
Log in
×