what an amazing book - still going strong across the planet - from 1958. I used to know it by heart.
Come in Bajans - tell me more about him.
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Wilfred Best's The Students'Companion
2020-04-21 13:48:57
2020-04-21 14:00:28
In reply to Chrissy
v good book. i still have a copy and read it ever so often. i thought he was a Guyanese of bajan extraction 
2020-04-21 14:15:33
In reply to sudden
I knew it by heart - seriously - just got a copy for a great niece. One of the best educational tools every written.
I don't know if he was born in Guyana or Bim but it hardly matters to me. I have a maternal grandpa from Bim and a paternal grandma from Bim.
2020-04-21 14:34:01
In reply to Chrissy
As a boy in TT my father knew some Bests in San Fernando,they were of Bajan heritage,I forgot to say they were Afro Bajans.Wilfred Best as far as I know was living and teaching in Trinidad until he and his family left for England.
2020-04-21 14:38:09
In reply to Chrissy
Gave a copy to a student in Elementary school in '68..Still call me from NYC where he became a
doctor and can't thank me enough.Whenever I pick upthe phone...he would say..'oh great man'
LOL.
One of the best books ever for study .
LOL
2020-04-21 14:40:28
In reply to hubert
and easy to read and digest.
do you know whether it is still in publication?
2020-04-21 14:44:29
In reply to sudden
...whether it is still in publication?
Yep it is. The colour has been changed to green with as you could imagine, quite a bit of updates.
2020-04-21 14:47:09
In reply to Courtesy
really? i have to get a new copy. i particularly like the Civic section. there was a time when Civics was taught in Bim. i am advocating for it to return. my next political theme
2020-04-21 14:47:46
In reply to hubert
Agree - About a decade ago had a 1st year student - an enthusiastic young lady who was struggling. I told her she's have to sort out her English to do better and she asked me how.
I set her on a self-teaching programme starting with the Students' Companion and several websites.
She moved from C+ in most subjects to B+ in two years. She completed her Masters and also learned Spanish. Now she's married with two kids. She still talks about that book and how it changed her life. I remind her that she was the one who wanted more.
2020-04-21 14:50:25
In reply to sudden
There are International Editions as well as the original Caribbean edition.
It's in several global libraries and is used in places like Australia, Hong Kong and Britain.
2020-04-21 14:51:07
In reply to Chrissy
About 20 years ago I requested copies of two books from the Caribbean....one was Students' companion and the other was First Aid in English.
I wanted my two daughters to use them here in Toronto...which unfortunately they didn't...
I still have them on a shelf in my basement....time to pull them out and have a look at these two great foundation books.
2020-04-21 14:51:29
My favorite book in primary school, along with Caribbean Readers. Didn't know that The Student's Companion was written by a West Indian.
2020-04-21 14:52:16
In reply to Narper
2020-04-21 14:52:30
In reply to sudden
really? i have to get a new copy. i particularly like the Civic section. there was a time when Civics was taught in Bim. i am advocating for it to return. my next political theme
Mate, I have already been trending this way. Civics was compulsory in the early forms and I have no doubt that it helped shape many lives.
Good move to attempt to bring it back in the primary and early form levels.
2020-04-21 16:46:40
In reply to Narper
I have a copy tried with my kids also but they preferred, Rogets’s Thesaurus instead.
I studied with the SC many a nights.
It is available on Amazon
2020-04-21 16:47:31
In reply to Chrissy
Gave a copy to a student in Elementary school in '68..Still call me from NYC where he became a
doctor and can't thank me enough.Whenever I pick upthe phone...he would say..'oh great man'
LOL.
One of the best books ever for study .
LOL
2020-04-21 16:49:10
In reply to Norm
Oh yes.
2020-04-21 16:53:36
In reply to Chrissy
Glad to know it is still available..have not seen one since that time. Got to grab a hold
of another copy.
In reply to Sudden
Would be great if Civics makes a return.Should not have been discarded. I did a voluntary 2-week stint
in the 80s at my son's Elem school, and civics was taught but it is no longer a subject in most
public schools in Philly, And you wonder why the greater population of today so ignorant ,,right up Trump's alley.
LOL
2020-04-21 17:08:59
thought that came from England!
2020-04-21 17:45:38
In reply to hubert
When the prevailing ideology changed from society to market, they threw out several babies with the bathwater - literally and figuratively.
2020-04-21 18:09:31
that probably came before my time and I am in my late 40's....The book that I remember is the Junior English Revised (a brown book with a yellow flower each petal had writing in it). I will have to see if this book all ya talking bout it still available so I can get one for my son)...
2020-04-21 18:11:26
In reply to Chrissy
I acquired a copy again a few years ago.
It was slimmed down and with very few of the lists I remember from childhood.
Nevertheless I assigned it to my daughter to memorise.
I guess I had a different edition.
2020-04-21 18:21:11
I remember my dad and grandfather speaking highly of a book called the Royal Reader.
2020-04-21 18:50:17
In reply to Halliwell
You can read it on line for free
2020-04-21 19:26:04
In reply to Chrissy
Good book. I have the Caribbean Edition. Also "The New First Aid In English" by Maciver / Gibson and "The Growth Of The Modern West Indies" by Gordon K. Lewis.
2020-04-21 19:49:36
In reply to hotarobin
Nah man it bin round was orange covered, used extensively for Common Entrance exams.
2020-04-21 19:51:37
In reply to Phillip-3
Gordon's son and I were on campus together - read all his dad's books.
2020-04-21 20:03:02
In reply to Chrissy
Nice.
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