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:
 

1. Universities are notorious for being Ivory Towers allowing full expression of ideas, some of which border on insanity.
2. Professors are proverbial for being eccentric, absent-minded, demented souls.
3. I am among friends whose support and goodwill ensure applause at the end even if all the ideas expressed are obscure and obtuse.

 
Having recently returned to the University from the real world I am celebrating release from institutional responsibility and the restrictions this places on what one says in public. I must confess, however, that I have been struggling with these ideas for some time and recognize the need for much more reflection. My purpose is to stimulate dialogue and discussion in teacher education. It is not to postulate dogma.