Dear Editor,
The famous Jamaican artist Ireko Baker and I, some years ago, got together and wrote a book titled Marcus Teaches Us. I reprinted it in 2013 which cost me a lot of foreign dollars as it is 33 pages of shiny colour.
We wrote this book as the only one of its kind in the entire world, a book sharing Marcus Garvey's philosophy for pre-school children between four and eight years of age. It is at these ages that children's personalities, temperaments, and social attitudes are being formed. The book teaches children to love one another, love themselves, and try to be self-reliant.
I taught Garvey in social issues in the 1990s on the UWI campus. Many undergraduates had no idea what Garvey taught, or the fight he had when he returned to his homeland, Jamaica. Is it that the fight is still continuing? I hope not. Garvey never taught hate, only love.
It is important that the Ministry of Education act decisively to introduce Garvey's teachings in our schools. Since 2013, I have given a copy personally to the minster of education, shared copies with the ministry, spoken to key people in the ministry about my book, all to no avail. When it went on sale on Amazon.com it got some really good reviews from readers and reviewers. Since then I have used the book with some five-year-olds in two pre-schools in Jamaica and all the children love it.
Can someone tell me why I have to be fighting so hard, with no apparent success, to have the book in the hands of pre-schoolers? What is it that I am not doing right?
Eleanor Wint, PhD
garveykids@eawpublications.com
The fight for Garvey in schools
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The famous Jamaican artist Ireko Baker and I, some years ago, got together and wrote a book titled Marcus Teaches Us. I reprinted it in 2013 which cost me a lot of foreign dollars as it is 33 pages of shiny colour.
We wrote this book as the only one of its kind in the entire world, a book sharing Marcus Garvey's philosophy for pre-school children between four and eight years of age. It is at these ages that children's personalities, temperaments, and social attitudes are being formed. The book teaches children to love one another, love themselves, and try to be self-reliant.
I taught Garvey in social issues in the 1990s on the UWI campus. Many undergraduates had no idea what Garvey taught, or the fight he had when he returned to his homeland, Jamaica. Is it that the fight is still continuing? I hope not. Garvey never taught hate, only love.
It is important that the Ministry of Education act decisively to introduce Garvey's teachings in our schools. Since 2013, I have given a copy personally to the minster of education, shared copies with the ministry, spoken to key people in the ministry about my book, all to no avail. When it went on sale on Amazon.com it got some really good reviews from readers and reviewers. Since then I have used the book with some five-year-olds in two pre-schools in Jamaica and all the children love it.
Can someone tell me why I have to be fighting so hard, with no apparent success, to have the book in the hands of pre-schoolers? What is it that I am not doing right?
Eleanor Wint, PhD
garveykids@eawpublications.com
The fight for Garvey in schools
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