A College Education and Democratic Citizenship Colleges claim that they play a crucial role in training students to be citizens. By involving students in off-campus communities, service programs teach the values of compassion and personal responsibility that are at the heart of true citizenship. Deliberative Skills Politics is about solving problems in common. Colleges should teach deliberation by encouraging students to engage in political talk with others. Democratizing the Campus Citizenship is about the exercise of political power.
Students learn citizenship .
A well-educated citizenry is democracy's best resource. At a time when many Americans are disillusioned with the state of their country's democracy, the education of a new generation of citizens is vitally important.