That's a wonderful story and and an uplifting rebuttal to Lord of the Flies.
But to be fair, six Tongan boys were probably far hardier and well equipped than the typical British schoolboy of that time would have been. It seems they thought nothing of stealing a fishing boat and heading to sea, and they most likely had abundant life skills already - they basically relocated from life on one pacific island to another.
So a great story but I don't know how much can be extrapolated from it about human behaviour in general.
But to be fair, six Tongan boys were probably far hardier and well equipped than the typical British schoolboy of that time would have been. It seems they thought nothing of stealing a fishing boat and heading to sea, and they most likely had abundant life skills already - they basically relocated from life on one pacific island to another.
So a great story but I don't know how much can be extrapolated from it about human behaviour in general.