That enhances what is taught in school by extending student learning beyond the classroom and into the community and helps to foster the development of a sense of caring for others. In a cycle of experience and reflection, students apply their skills and knowledge to help people, and in the classroom, they reflect on the people, social agencies, and communities they have encountered and on the nature of service.
Service makes academic study immediate and relevant.
Our institutions of higher learning might certainly take heed-not only encourage students to do such service, but help them stop and mull over what they have heard and seen by means of books to be read and discussions to be had. The use of service component in a curriculum will not in and of itself provide students with an understanding of democracy or with an expanded context for considering traditional objective classroom knowledge. Students need the chance to directly connect books and experience, ideas and introspection, to continuing activity in the community. A good college affirms service to others is a central part of education. Everybody can be great because everybody can serve .