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...moment we all become gentlemen, this country is dead," says Nigerian Schoolmaster Tai Solarin. As founder of the Mayflower School in Ikenne, Western Nigeria, he is dedicated to destroying the educated Nigerian's British-bred notion that the ideal product of education is a black gentleman in a white collar...
...bush to start Mayflower School. Until the boys finished the first housing, the Solarins slept on the schoolroom floor and the boys on the school porch. Since then each new class has built its own dormitory. Also blossoming is academic quality: Mayflower is one of the few schools in Nigeria that make biology, chemistry and physics compulsory. And now the students include girls-an innovation in Nigeria, where women rarely go beyond primary school...
Solarin is sure that his helpers' work is not in vain. "Our mission is clear," says he. "It's to foster absolute freedom of thought in Nigeria. And we don't intend to turn out any gentlemen...
...subject. More than half of the 400 students at the Boston School of Music are studying the guitar. Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music has more than 100 guitar students ranging in age from ten to 70. Only last week, six Peace Corpsmen, bound for Nigeria, startled their boss R. Sargent Shriver, by unleashing their guitars for an impromptu serenade...
...country-which also specified the skills it needed in the volunteers. Primarily, the demand was for teachers. All the corps members in the Philippines will teach mathematics, science and English in elementary schools. All 50 volunteers in Ghana are teaching in secondary schools. Of the 66 corps members in Nigeria, 36 are secondary-school teachers, and the rest will help staff the new University of Nigeria...