TL;DR - New Zealand history is generally really widely taught from the second you start school right up through university, most things you learn will include some component about New Zealand history (including sewing which was really freaking cool). However education about other countries and cultures is lacking and this means a lot of people are very small-minded and uninformed about the rest of the world that we live in. The spoiler is a more detailed breakdown of some cool ways we learned history and how things work in a more general sense.

A qualifying statement here... I grew up in the south, I attended 2 different primary schools, and two different high schools (one was up north and it was even better because the Maori and Polynesian population is larger up there), and this is just my experience of the school system as it pertains to how history is handled there. Obviously not every school will teach exactly like this, and also not every person is small-minded!