It is no accident that we are assembled this afternoon in the Creative Arts Centre. This lecture is a command performance. It is the price that one is paying for having had the great honour of being appointed to the Chair of Teacher Education at the University of the West Indies. It is a mandatory requirement if all new boys recently installed in Professorial Chairs to expound on a subject related to their seat of knowledge.
 
I approach this task with three firm assurances:

The present writer, Miller (1971), has postulated that one of the legacies of colonialism, slavery, and the adoption of British social philosophy in Jamaican society is that members of the society are socialized to habitually evaluate worth according to three major criteria: