The real value, though, lies in enhanced learning.
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.