European missionaries wanted to build schools and introduce the European education system. The missionaries wanted to influence the local Maori tribes with the European education system. “They came, they saw, they named, they said” (May, H, 2013, p. 25). The goals included preventing people from being against the church, preventing "heathens". The missionaries also wanted to create a civilized and enlightened society.). They introduced education because parents were seen as a bad influence and the missionaries wanted to change the mindset of children so that they were not like the adults around them. The first children's school was opened at Paihia in 1833, by Henry Williams and his wife. The missionaries used the ideas of Rousseau and Wollstonecraft, for example, the missionaries struggled to keep children in class, especially Māori children. So they had to try a different teaching method, taking the children outside, letting them explore nature and giving them the right to learn what they want to learn, whenever they want. This is one of Rousseau's ideas of the "free child". Children were taught together, both boys and girls, in one class, this was unusual because it was against the church. However, Wollstonecraft's idea of ​​equality for all students influences missionaries in teaching children and providing opportunities to be educated. Although the main reason why the missionaries established the school in New Zealand