Notable Individuals of The Service Learning Idea
Several of the proponents of citizenship and service-learning are John Locke, John Dewey, and Dr. Benjamin Barber.
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who had the idea that instead of just book learning, knowledge needs to be an experience. He believed that a man’s sense of perception had to be his greatest learning tool. Locke once said, “All wealth is the product of labor.” He understood that a man not only had to experience something to learn, he also had to meditate on what he had experienced in order to truly learn what was being taught.
“Democracy has to be born anew every generation and education is its midwife.” -John Dewey (1859-1952) Dewey made it clear from his writing that democracy, citizenship and education belong together. One cannot be learned without the others. There is a link between citizenship and education, one that can be learned through service-learning. John Dewey also said, “Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself.” He knew that one cannot have the mindset of just preparing for life, they must know that life is about learning.
A man by the name of Dr. Benjamin Barber (1939-????)has a concern for citizenship and education in America. The basic theme of much of Dr. Barber’s work is how to strengthen democracy. He has been a big supporter of requiring civics classes that include service-learning courses to advance citizenship.
Service-learning can motivate students and help them to understand social issues while developing positive relationships with those in there communities.
Read more about this topic: Service-learning, Origins of Service-Learning
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“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)
“Instead of seeing society as a collection of clearly defined “interest groups,” society must be reconceptualized as a complex network of groups of interacting individuals whose membership and communication patterns are seldom confined to one such group alone.”
—Diana Crane (b. 1933)
“We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.”
—Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769–1852)
“‘Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“My idea is that the world outside—the so-called modern world—can only pervert and degrade the conceptions of the primitive instinct of art and feeling, and that our only chance is to accept the limited number of survivors—the one- in-a-thousand of born artists and poets—and to intensify the energy of feeling within that radiant centre.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)