Knowledge for Tomorrow

A Summarized Commentary of World History, Nature, Health, Religion, Organized Crime, and Inspiration for the Youth.

by Quinton Douglas Crawford

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Book Details

Language : English

Publication Date : 2/1/2005

Format : E-Book

Dimensions : N/A

Page Count : 276

ISBN : 9780595788170

Format : Softcover

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 276

ISBN : 9780595340309

About the Book

Questions

Why are there so many problems on our world?
Are the children of the world going to be okay?
What about the other holocausts!
Why is everyone getting so sick?
If there is so much money in the world, why are there poor people?
Why are so many things called conspiracies?
Was it always like this?
Have today's musical arts benefited anyone?
Who are the heroes of today, and what should we believe for life & death?
What are some ways to fix our world?

This book is designed to assist you in answering these and other questions. It is a compilation of a few months of research. Some questions have been left open for you to answer, or may be included in another book. Again, full praise is given to all the women, men, and children that inspired my research. Special appreciation is given to my family, friends, and those that have crossed over.

Mr. Quinton D. Crawford

Thanks for reading Knowledge for Tomorrow vol.1

About the Author

Mr. Quinton Douglass Crawford is currently a substitute teacher for the Travis Unified School District, The Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, working towards a credential, and author of several books. He was born in Edwards AFB, California (near Los Angelos). Throughout his childhood years, he lived on U.S. Air Force Bases in Spain and England; shorter amounts of time in New York, South Carolina, Philadelphia, and now back in California for the majority of his life so far. Prior to residence in Fairfield, California he resided in Travis AFB. Recently, he worked in the nation of Ghana for 8-months as a volunteer teacher trainer in the rural community of Sefwi-Wiawso. (Volunteer Org. International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (2007/08). He has a B.A. degree in Social Science from Chapman University, and other degrees, but Solano Community College led the major part of his life choice direction to be an educator. He was sprung into student leadership, met great people, and had interesting job experiences; one of which gave him a true sense of teaching on the other side of the table. The most important experiences that has motivated him were from the last day of school in the first elementary school he worked in (Suisun Elementary). Weeks before the last day of his contract with the school in the 1999/2000 school year, he pleaded with the supervisor of the state program (CalSoap Success Consortium) and the principal to allow him to remain and focus his assistance towards a specific group of 5th grade students on the edge of life perceptions of success and failure. There was one student in particular (Ms. Ashley S.) late in the year 2000, that he was extremely concerned about. She was beginning to believe in an extremely limiting conception of herself. He saw that she was on a path to either failure of the grade and continual self-degrading low expectations, or towards the honor roll and leadership potential that he envisioned her becoming. He worked overtime with her and some other children to improve their academics, aspirations towards college, and perceptions of themselves. On the last day of school, the children told him that they would not of passed 5th grade without his help. In his early years, some racially discriminatory comments made against him during his Elementary, Middle School, and High School years helped motivate his decisions to become an educator, social justice activist, and author. The quote “Success is the Best Revenge” has been on his mind most of his life. The only hindrances have been access and adequate information, which has slowed many of his life objectives. He is very proud to of been raised in his family, although he never got to build one of his own. He cares about each child he gains the ability to teach as his own, whether he works with kindergartners, fourth graders, all the way up to High School seniors. The creation of his books and websites are led by his desire to be teaching everyone 24/7 for the benefit of making a better future exist. He firmly believes that it is the purpose of each generation to make the world a better place for the next generations. A great series of friends and experiences have also encouraged him. Persons that he had the honor of meeting while he was a student leader in Solano Community College such as; Khalid Muhammad, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson Sr., Magic Johnson, Prof. Manu Ampim, and others have all inspired him. A great deal of the aspiration towards the development of his books goes to Greenpeace, The Earth Charter, The Ausar Auset Society, NAACP, A-APRP, Soka Gakkai International, and others mentioned in honor within the book.

Customer Reviews

“The world is my extended family”, this line from the beginning of the book took my understanding of faith to a next level. This book is such an amazing piece of writing which enlightens the diversity by giving a brief from the historical background. The principles, to dwell in a bright future, suggested in this book are giving a proper direction; indeed, humans need to develop an understanding of the humanity regardless of their belief, faith, etc. The book also predicts the future if humans due to the negative behavior of people, it says about the biological warfare, collapses of nations in terms of economy and natural disasters. One of the most beautiful parts of this book is when the book highlights all the important historical elements which reflect on the mistakes which today’s world inherits rather than learning from it. Furthermore, the most important question which always comes in our mind why people are poor when there is so much money around the world? By reading this book, I am now able to realize why there is such between the communities and why the world is divided into groups like rich and poor. I always wonder if there are any conspiracies of humans against humanity and grateful to this book that finally I can figure about why there exist conspiracies. From history, we can see that world order has continuously been changing and the nations try to acquire power via any kind of war. Why people do not take the path of peace? After WWII, the world realizes that there is a need for peace restoration through negotiation and diplomacy and the world an alliance for the entire world as UNO. The UN has been continuously striving to achieve peace through talks by empowering nations through different means and ensures human rights protection. The book highlights the efforts of the UN in terms of human rights because this is what the world needs! Moreover, there is a dire need to understand the next generation i.e. children. In today’s world, parenting requires modern techniques to guide the children to make them count in this world. Along with this, most of the parents, usually, do not encourage their children for doing new things because they were not encouraged! But they need to encourage their offspring because the world traits are not the same as before. The book covers the problems which are universal around the globe along with this, the book provides the solutions to overcome those problems and guide children properly as per the modern world’s requirements. In a nutshell, this book is written in such a way that even an ordinary person can read and find the solutions to live properly with peace by taking account of historical context. At the end of the book, it also shares some additional knowledge regarding world traditions that are present till today. One should read this book to route oneself in the right direction in terms of faith without the difference of any kind of ethnicity.

Syed Ahmed

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