There has been a basic misunderstanding by the reviewer, Miss Judith Reay, of the type of book which the authors set out to write. Perhaps the fault lies in not emphasizing the aims in the preface of the book, although the rationale for the book's content was discussed in the Introduction.
Reay has accused the authors of missing "the opportunity to help teachers take a new look at their subject". In fact, in the context of West Indian schools, an attempt has been made to encourage innovative approaches. This has been done by encouraging teachers (l) to "introduce the history of physics in the classroom", and (2) to supplement the "chalk and talk" lectures with demonstrations to bridge the gap between the concrete and formal operations of the mind. In addition we have tried to supplement the information in textbooks by supplying teachers with a fuller discussion of troublesome topics. Equally important for the many schools which have difficulty in providing apparatus for experiments, many stock experiments have been adapted for the West Indian teacher, based on "availability of apparatus in the Caribbean school, or the ease with which it may be borrowed from home or from a friend, or obtained at a hardware store, junk yard, or science education centre, etc."
The Guide, however, was not intended to be a text-book or experimental manual.