I read books that challenge and inspire:
books that make one feel that life
is worth living.
DR. TAI SOLARIN, 1992
If
you want to start benefiting from the following ebooks and nine other ebooks on
the personality and philosophy of this unique Nigerian and his wife as well as
their educational legacy, Mayflower School, in the next few hours, simply call 0909-177-3366 or 0802-720-4488 or 0803-365-3110 right now to avail yourself of the opportunity. Here are the starters or appetizers.
Education for Greatness 1:
Selected Speeches of Dr. Tai Solarin
Tai Solarin in a Nutshell:
Immortal Quotes of Tai Solarin
No Witches, No Angels: My Credo
Mayflower: The Story of a School
Our Grammar School Must Go
Sheila: A Lady of Courage.
“But why should I read Tai Solarin’s books or ebooks
at all?” you may ask. Here is Dr. Tai Solarin’s personal but proactive response:
“My guess is that most people want to
read about people who started poor and ended in affluence or greatness.
This is because most of the people everywhere are poor. Or to put it in another
way, most of the people everywhere are common men.
“The average reader would like to read about
the life of the common man who ended uncommon. The common man who sweated
and strained, body all aching and racked with pain, but who eventually made it
by extracting himself with his own exertion from the crowd of the common men to
the pinnacle, with so few up there and all of them uncommon. In our society in
Nigeria, this is the class to which I belong. I started from down under and eventually rose not to affluence but to
greatness.”
Writing
a foreword to Education for Greatness 1:
Selected Speeches of Dr. Tai Solarin, Nigeria’s former Minister of
Education cum personal friend of Dr. Tai Solarin, Professor Babs Fafunwa, ascertained
that “Tai’s fertile mind, like his
writings, ranged over a broad variety of topics: nation-building,
self-reliance, technology, science, culture, economic well-being, food
production and human rights, just to mention a few. But all of Tai
Solarin’s topics, both in speeches and articles in the national newspapers,
dovetail into education.”
If you want to have education for
personal and national greatness, your starting point must be the ownership of the
265 pages book or ebook Education for
Greatness 1 with
48 colour pictures of Dr. Tai Solarin, Mrs. Sheila Solarin, Corin Solarin,
Tunde Solarin, Sulaiman Dave Bola-Babs, Professor Wole Soyinka, Professor Babs
Fafunwa, Chief Bola Ige, Mayflower Junior School pupils, Mayflower School
students, ex-Mays and Tai Solarin’s other friends and associates, in addition
to his complete profile plus his ideas and principles of education advocated
for more than four decades in his own pristine words.
On
the other hand, if you are ready to quickly drink from the fountain of wisdom
of the social crusader par excellence, your best bet is the 126 pages book or
ebook titled Tai Solarin in a Nutshell:
Immortal Quotes of Tai Solarin with a foreword by the former Vice
Chancellor of the University of Benin, Professor Grace Alele-Williams. According to her, “the book is an attempt to
bring together in one book the philosophy of the man Tai Solarin. In particular,
it describes what the man stood for. The book attempts to view the wide range
of Tai Solarin's writings about the failures and, in some ways, the greatness
Nigeria could attain as a nation.
“Tai
Solarin was an educationist, a social critic and a reformer. He believed ardently in the power of
education to transform Nigeria into an egalitarian society, a state in which
Nigerians would enjoy the basic necessities and civil rights. These he saw
as a right of every Nigerian to food, shelter, water, transportation, adequate
health care facilities and education from birth to the tertiary level. He not
only used every opportunity available to him to teach, lecture and discuss, he
also often berated the authorities for the type of education available in the
country, the missionary schools and the private proprietors. Tai not only
criticised the government, he also practised what he taught by establishing his
school.
“In
all, Tai Solarin in a Nutshell: Immortal
Quotes of Tai Solarin is not a book to be read in a hurry. Each nugget calls for deliberate thinking
in order to re-examine policies, practices, governance, indiscipline,
indulgence, malice and inadequacies in the nation. This book is, therefore,
capable of galvanizing its readers to re-examine Tai Solarin's life and works
in order to examine not only our schools and colleges today but also governance
and the role the educated can play in transforming our country for good.”
These
are glimpses from just two of the 36-plus books on Dr. Tai Solarin and Mayflower
School. If you are interested in enjoying some of the 11 books authored by the erudite educationist and 25-plus publications
by other scholars on him and his philosophy of life, simply call 0809-430-8887
right now to avail yourself of the books or ebooks on him and his existential
ideology.
Even
the former military president of Nigeria, retired General Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida admitted in his 2012 interview with the Leadership newspaper, “I was an avid reader of late Dr. Tai Solarin
when I was in secondary school. There was his column, ‘Thinking With You’. I grew up to know that even the whites
teaching us at that time loved to read him, because there was a lot of sense in
what he said.”
Yours
sincerely discovered the genius in Dr. Tai Solarin in 1984 after reading his A Message for Young Nigerians good nine
years before the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of
Justice of Nigeria, Dr. Olu Onagoruwa, found out same in 1993 when he averred
that “Dr. Tai Solarin and I share the
same ideals and ideology of equity and social justice, with an unalterable
belief in the rule of law and preservation of the dignity of man. Like all
great men of unusual vision, Tai Solarin approximates to Mahatma Gandhi, Karl
Marx, John Dewey, etc. in selflessness and self-denial. However, I feel
confounded that his logical mind finds
no place for religion and the Creator who created his genius.”
