"Escape To Freedom: Chronicles Of A Life On Two Continents" chronicles how Irie Glajar, a mathematics professor in Austin, Texas, escaped to freedom in the U.S.A. from communist Romania of 1981. At age 26 Irie risked his life in a daring escape from communism through Yugoslavia and Italy to reach freedom in the United States. The odds were against him with little money, no vehicle, no passport and having to deal with several foreign languages along the way. Escape To Freedom is an entertaining autobiography about Irie's life under communism, his dangerous escape, and his present life in the freedom of the U.S.A.

Despite the great technological, political, and cultural accomplishments of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, there has been little real progress in other crucial areas of human development. Clearly, many deep spiritual human values are being sacrificed for selfish pursuits. Consequently, crime motivated by anger, jealousy, and envy, continues to increase while people of different social, spiritual, educational, and political backgrounds exhibit also self destructive behavior. The author believes strongly that the present educational model of separation in the Western world is responsible for this social trend and a shift in the existing paradigm toward the model of unity is essential for a real positive change in human behavior. We need to know who we really are and what is our real place in the universe. The purpose of this book is to provide evidence and motivation for the implementation of the new educational paradigm.

TEACH FOR LIFE, the new book by Irie Glajar, a math professor, provides many easy, fun, effective and practical ways for each of us as human beings and citizens of the world, to fulfill our dual duties as teachers and students. We all have the responsibility to learn and teach forever. Irie's book can help us enjoy and effectively handle or double duties and opportunities in those two most important capacities. His daring escape in 1981 at age 26 from, then, hard-core Communist Romania, and his life thereafter in the U.S.A., show that a motivated person can accomplish virtually anything. From Cicero to Mozart, Goethe, Nietzsche, and Einstein, constructive ideas about education are abundant; the author brings them to date within a suggestive and crafty approach. Modern education should be more than learning facts and reproducing procedures, even as we refer to mathematics. It should carefully intertwine a practical existential philosophy with logical and applicable understanding of the purpose of knowledge. Suggestions to instructors in the classroom and to the parents and students related to the meaning of life, hence education, complete the delicate format of this book. Mr. Glajar's contribution to modern education should help take teaching and learning to a higher level, as we all aspire to peace, love, and prosperity.