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I wish to contact about three authors who have an interest in what I call 'structured learning environments" - boarding schools, Hostels, and the type of Houses such as Gen-1 House , Univ. Cincinnati, or Harlem ( Promise House); and who might be willing to do a review of my recently published book in exchange for my reviewing their books.

My book is entitled: “The Grenada Boys Secondary School Hostel – Reminiscing on a boarding school life in Grenada”. The book focuses on the process and the lessons the Hostel provided to us boys. And while it does not detail joint and individual successes, believe me, they are many (including myself), and worthy of emulation.

Here is my own appreciation:
"I chuckle knowingly when I read (more frequently these days)
of the ‘fantastic’ results and impact of what I call ‘structured educational (learning) environments’. Education specialists may have a specific meaning for this term. However, I refer to environments such as exist at Harlem Children’s Zone’s (Promise Academy), and at a higher level, Gen-1 House at the University of Cincinnati, and others like these.

For seven years, 1953-1960, I attended the Grenada Boys Secondary School (GBSS) in the West Indies, and was a resident at the school’s boarding arm, the ‘GBSS Hostel’. This experience is at another time and in another place and culture, different from the general situation in the United States. Over its nearly 27 years of existence, the GBSS Hostel guided the personal development, performance and attitudes of its many residents. This one quote from a Hostel Boy says it all: ” So many of us came to the Hostel as brash, crude,’ignorant’, unhewn base metals and left as polished gems”. In the interim, Hostel Boys excelled in educational achievement, in sports, and in their identity characteristics.

To the thinking reader the book raises the question of the success of such institutions in today’s environment. Stories like Promise House and Gen-1 House strengthen my sense of praise and thanks for my own experiences at the GBSS and the GBSS Hostel during my secondary school years – the formative years of my life. The "amazing” results at Promise House and Gen-1 House provide positive answers to the question. These also support my thinking that the boarding school concept is a worthy educational tool, and is relevant over time and space. I am also fortified in my thinking that otherwise wayward (human) energy would bring great joint and individual successes when stimulated through structural channels (e.g. sports, study), and through sensible application of rules and use of privileges."
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