"The Generation of people trying to build up my country today are the generation who only had standard two education," said Cook Islands' Premier, Mr. Albert Henry, at Victoria recently.

Albert Henry

"This doesn't mean they can't think, but they have difficulty in understanding what is going on outside their reef. They know what they want for the Cook Islands but don't know how to fit this in with the rest of the world. The only book they read regularly is the Bible, and that doesn't tell them what is happening in Vietnam or Egypt or Palestine."