Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century

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Summary: I Appreciate The Messages
Review: As a teacher, I appreciate the messages from Dr. Tom Carter, the publisher of "Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century" by Dr. John Newton. Although I do not welcome all unsolicited emails, Dr. Carter's messages are particularly welcomed. Besides, after all, to inform people of the availability of the book is his responsibility. Without information, people are unaware of the existence of the book so that they cannot get the benefits from the book that they should do.

See, this is what he wrote in his message about school violence, the most important education problem our nation is trying to solve:

" "The significance of the problem" is much more important than "the number of people killed in schools".

In addition to shooting, other kinds of school violence, such as rape, sexual assault, aggravated assault, robbery, bullying, mugging, fighting, theft, harassment, ..., and other youth problems, like suicide, suicide attempt, suicide inclination, pessimism, relationship problems, emotion problems, drug abuse, discrimination, ..., cannot be ignored, either.

Some measures may handle a few "symptoms" temporarily and partially but are not solutions for education, particularly in view of our responsibilities for the whole society.

Now an effective, proper, comprehensive, deep-rooted and permanent solution is needed! "

See, this is appreciation from another profession:

" "I find it heartening that you are crusading on behalf of this worthy book. It has occupied a space on our shelves for some time now. To have this book in our library is a quiet source of pride to me, the librarian." said Mr. Don Brusha, a highly respectable Librarian, Avon Park Library, Avon Park, Florida, USA, in a letter to me (Dr. Carter) regarding the book. "

With the help of these brief messages, one can easily realize the great value of "Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century" by Dr. Newton.

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Summary: Unprecedented!
Review: Having already read numerous books on conduct and education for my professional need, I am delighted to see some special features of "Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century" by Dr. John Newton. Some of them have already been mentioned by other reviewers. Here I like to share my view with people regarding only the following two points, although there are many other special features which have not yet been mentioned by reviewers.

First. I am particularly interested in the materials associated with the Eastern culture in the book, which few books of this subject cover. The Western people really need to read those. They may help solve the problems the Western culture can not. Furthermore, Dr. Newton carefully and wonderfully blended some best concepts, minds, souls and spirits in both the Eastern and the Western cultures (the two are quite different), and generated some unprecedented results. These will be needed by the new human society in the 21st century, and may also help solve some important and difficult problems.

Second. While most other books of this subject are too lengthy and verbose and/or with too many special terminologies, this book is well designed to suit most people. Frankly speaking, in the new century most people will be too busy to patiently read and digest a whole serious book. To them, regarding conduct, an easy, simple, clear, convenient and self-contained handbook is more useful and helpful. The book is just so designed. This is praiseworthy.

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Summary: Solve The Problem of School Violence Effectively & Rightly
Review: How astonished and sad when we, the Americans, heard an item of school violence news! These endless tragedies happened again and again in the past several years. Today's students will be tomorrow's pillars of the state. Thus this is really the most important national crisis our nation is facing! In fact, this problem will spread into many other countries in the 21st century if they do nothing to prevent it.

Can the problem of school violence be solved? How can it be solved? Gun control? School security actions? I agree on Dr. John Newton's foresight: the most effective and proper way to solve the problem is appropriate conduct education.

"Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century" by Dr. John Newton is the very book that can effectively help solve the problem of school violence in a right way. If students, teachers and parents can learn the conduct principles in this book well, then that "unsolvable" problem will be solved. It is not difficult at all to learn them, because this book is a simple, easy, clear, convenient and self-contained handbook, well designed to suit most people.

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Summary: Making Life Smoother And Happier
Review: How nice it is! If one wishes to make his or her
life smoother and happier and do whatever he or
she likes without making others unpleasant, this
is a book he or she needs to read.

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Summary: Solution For A Peaceful And Better World
Review: I agree:
How to make the world peaceful and better --
The solution can be found in Dr. John Newton's "Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century". This is what people in the whole world need, especially now.

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Summary: What a beautiful and respectable mind!
Review: I especially like the Principle of "Lasting" (# 103): "A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation." What a beautiful and respectable mind! Few friendships have ever attained that. I hope our human beings will be improved by this great book.

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Summary: Making The World Better
Review: Is the world good enough now? Of course not! You can see many people are fighting with one another here and there. I appreciate John Newton's "Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century", which can really make the world better.

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Summary: Thinking While Reading To Be Best Benefited
Review: People in the habit of glancing through non-fiction books do not best benefit from the book. They miss important values of the book. Furthermore, misusing the handbook may result in misconception and, in the extreme case, even irresponsible, incorrect, unrighteous, and misleading public comments on the book. On the other hand, people thinking while reading the book will better benefit from it.

Reasonably a book of COMPLETE conduct principles must include many principles already familiar to people (while there are some creative ones). As a result, some people may feel trivial about a few principle titles (for example, "Respect Other People") at their first glances. However, people very familiar with some conduct principles usually do not well follow those principles. Why? The problem is lack of deep thinking -- thinking about a conduct principle itself, thinking about how to follow it in the real-life circumstances, etc. I think one of many important values of "Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century" by Dr. John Newton is to help people fill that gap. But it will be best accomplished only when a reader does think while reading the book.

Another point I would like to mention is that it appears that the author attempted to use simpler sentences in order to suit the broad readership.

Let me arbitrarily cite a paragraph from the book as an example (from page 158) ---

"All human beings live on this very small earth, while the earth is only a tiny particle in the vast universe. Therefore all people all over the world are in the same boat, and should help instead of fighting with one another. People should have this understanding and mind."

Yes, most people are very familiar with these words, but, how many people do you think who have ever really deep thought about the meaning, the significance, the real practice, ...?

This is merely one arbitrary example; there are lots of better ones.

I suggest that you think while reading each sentence of the book to be best benefited. This is also consistent with the author's advice in the section of "How to Use This Handbook" (page 27-28), which should be read before doing the main text.

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Summary: Reading the book increases my hope of a better world
Review: Reading the book increases my hope of a better world in this century, which sadly begins with a dark side. May more people read it!

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Summary: Follow Author's Advice To Best Use This Handbook
Review: Some people habitually read a few kinds of nonfiction books TOO HURRIEDLY. This is the actual cause that some of them have difficulty in following authors' concepts. Reading a handbook like Dr. Newton's "Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century", one should follow the author's advice for appropriate usage. In this book, there are two sections titled "How to Use This Handbook" and "A few Explanations and Pieces of Advice regarding Using This Handbook", which should be read to best use and appreciate this great book.