Tahugas were honored because they faced the dead. Although the text only mentions that the older Tahuga taught the student about Kororupu, the land in the Underworld, we can assume that at each place the student was taught about each of those places. It isn't known, very little of that information has survived to the present day. But we can see that the tahuga became a tahuga because of what he was taught, because of education. These words teach that in the ancient times, that learning, that education, was valued among the people.
Education is a part of traditional Polynesian culture.
In these times some people don't value education, they talk in class, they don't take notes of the what the teacher says, they don't do their homework. Maybe if they had to be tested like the tahugas were tested, by sitting in a graveyard at night, then, maybe, they would turn off the T.V., read, and ask lots of questions in class. If they did that, they would be modern day kaitos, modern day tahugas. They should make t-shirts with pictures of warriors who hold calculators and read books instead of waving clubs and spears. Translated by Daniel Longstaff from Frank Stimson's Tuamotuan notes which are located in the Peabody museum in Massachusetts.