The value of honor, the value of honoring credentials, the value of wanting a university, community college or a college in your town and feeling that it brings something back to you. In these walls are the values of a society and it's time for the universities to acknowledge that service-learning indeed has great value. Because the value of community is right here in this room, it is right here within these walls. Both Worlds Having been to both worlds, I challenge my university colleagues as well as my community colleagues to convince me that we can live without each other. We must live with both-the practical experiences as well as the theories that serve us.
Service can be in every discipline.
I heard grumblings this morning about chemistry, about how we might make service-learning work for chemists. There are days when I think I would like to have those chemists in my room so that they can see what living with those side effects might mean. It means not being able to go to work, it means not being able to be emotionally available to your children, it means not being able to contribute to your community. Expanding our World View Service-learning is about gaining valuable experiences, about being willing to change our personal world views and about seeing how other people live. My experience is that of an educated white woman, of a mother, of a wife, and of all those other life experiences that I bring to the table.