John Waiko discusses the priest, Romney Maurice Gill, who learned Binandere, and later had his ashes scattered in the ocean at Manau. He discusses religious education.
John Waiko discusses that in the 1950s neither his father nor his mother wanted him to go to school, as it was his role to, among other things, look after them in their old age. He recalls his mother's role in feeding the family.
John Waiko discusses his education at the Martyrs Memorial School, with Sister Nancy Helen White who established the school and was posted to Manau in 1950.
Ethel Arek states that each region had the same trouble between mission and government schools, and they transferred from Popondetta to Kerema in 1957 and then to Daru.
Lawrence Titimur describes how he won a scholarship in Grade 6 for Wolaroi College in Orange, NSW, where he spent four years Grade 7-10, 1969-72. He remembers completing an assignment on the trade union movement in Australia at school. He states that the schooling of so many PNGs in Australia was a scheme that helped contribute talent to the PNG public service.
Lawrence Titimur outlines his early schooling on Matupit Island and his father's involvement in politics. He describes how he moved school to Kamarere primary in Rabaul, a multi-racial school.
Matilda Pilacapio is welcomed to the interview and describes her first contact with Europeans and her upbringing on a coconut plantation. She states that she is the daughter of a mixed race planter, and her father had both a liquor and a gun licence. She states that she mixed with her father's colonial friends including Kiaps. She states that she went to an Anglican Mission School as a boarder.
Charles Lepani discusses his high school education at Charters Towers, Queensland, which he completed in 1966, and becoming part of the second intake in 1967 into the University of Papua New Guinea where he met good friends Rabbie Namaliu, Tony Siaguru, and Mekere Morauta. He discusses the group's growing awareness regarding Independence and well as the sense of political awareness in the first generation of political leaders including Michael Somare, John Guise and his father Lepani Watson.
Ted Diro describes his early years in Port Moresby, assisted by relatives who helped him pay for his fare of 16 shillings. He describes the process whereby he was accepted into schools in Port Moresby in the Kila Kila area through his association with the head teacher. He describes studying by kerosene light at night and caddying at the government golf club during the day to earn 1 shilling to feed himself and where he met other patrons who supported him.
