The historiography of education in the West Indies is still undeveloped. The student of the history of education in the English speaking West Indies has, up to now, a very limited range of texts from which to choose; Shirley Gordon's two documentary works and John Figueroa's Society, Schools and Progress in the West Indies being the ones most readily available. This account of the his­tory of education in Jamaica is a useful addition to the range. It has the added advantage over the books by Gordon and Figueroa of bringing the story for Jamaica up to date.