Today Beth, Tabassum, and I went out to Lorain County Community College for a Service Learning/Community-Based Learning workshop. Quotes were sprinkled throughout, and here are some of my favorites:
"Service is the rent we pay for living. It is the very purpose of life and not something to do in your spare time."
--Martin Luther King Jr.
"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."
--Horace Mann
"We challenege you to assure that the next year's entering students will graduate as individuals of character more sensitive to the needs of the community, more competant to contribute to society, and more civil in habits of thought, speech, and action."
--Wingspread Group Report on Higher Education (1993)
"I was born a citizen of a free state...however slight my voice may affect public affairs, my right to vote on them is enough to impose upon me the duty of learning about them."
--Jean Jacques Rousseau
"We [higher education] educate a larger proportion of the citizens who bother to vote, not to mention most of the politicians, journalists, and news commentators. We also educate all the school administrators and teachers, who in turn educate everyone at the pre-college level. And we do much to shape the pre-college curriculum through what we require of our college applicants. In short, not only have we helped create the problems that plague American democracy, but we are also in a position to begin doing something about them. If higher education doesn't start giving citizenship and democracy much greater priority, who will?"
--(Astin 1995)
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