Values for a New Millennium: Activating the Natural Law To: Reduce Violence, Revitelize Our Schools, Promote Cross-Cultural Harmony

By Robert L. Humphrey

Book Overview

Robert L. Humphrey was an Iwo Jima veteran, Harvard graduate, and cross cultural conflict resolution specialist during the Cold War. He proposed the "Dual Life Value Theory" of Human Nature.From the experiences of childhood in the Great Depression, trips as a teenager in the Panamanian Merchant Marines, national-class boxing, the awe-inspiring sights of selfless sacrifice on Iwo Jima, and finally, fifteen years in overseas ideological warfare, Humphrey observed that universal values exist and, ultimately control human behavior. Humphrey is a graduate of Wisconsin University, Harvard Law School, and the Fletcher School of Diplomacy.At the beginning of the Cold War, he left a teaching position at MIT to help lead the struggle against Communism. Finding that U.S. education was contributing to, rather than reducing, American overseas problems, he developed a new leadership approach that overcame Ugly American syndrome among hundreds of thousands in crucial Third World areas. More recently, his methodology won commendations for educating the alleged uneducable: Mexican-American street-gang youths in southern California, and Canadian Native teenage dropouts.Until Communism's fall, Humphrey kept his new methods confidential. Those methods are significant: (1) From his experiences with young infantrymen in heavy combat, and with the peasants in many villages of the world, he perceived humankind's basic goodness that philosophers have missed or under-rated. (2) In place of compartmentalized, primarily mental education, Humphrey has developed a human-nature-guided (moral, physical, artistic, mental) approach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915761041
• ISBN13: 9780915761043
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Life Values Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A must read

This is a book that changes lives. If we were all to apply even a fraction of the lessons Robert Humphrey dishes out in this book we would certainly live in a much more peaceful world. The teachings in this book changed the way I see the world in all aspects of my life including parenting, teaching, and as member of my community. As a former prison guard, law enforcement officer, and more recently a mentor for troubled youth, I have tested these methods and found them to be nothing but pure truth to their core.

Very appropriately titled

This book and Ishmael are two of the best books I've read...and I think a combination of these two books could accomplish what all the world's religions have tried to do for ages if enough people read them and IMPLEMENTED them. That is the same problem the religions have encountered...eventually nobody understands the source but a few people and the ideas are institutionalized in an inappropriate fashion. Let's hope that doesn't happen with these incredible life-preserving ideas!!

Jugular and clarifying.

Finally a book that puts into words what people for so long have been searching for in their lives on natural laws, ethics and values.