Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.
Craig KielburgerRead
We've found that service learning builds life skills, leadership and a sense of global citizenship that makes helping a lifelong habit.
Interpretation
Service learning develops essential life skills and fosters a commitment to helping others.
In this quote, Craig Kielburger emphasizes the transformative power of service learning in education. By engaging students in community service, they not only acquire valuable life skills and leadership qualities but also cultivate a mindset of global citizenship. This approach encourages individuals to make helping others a lifelong commitment rather than a one-time act, enriching both their lives and the lives of those they serve.
In practice
During a keynote speech at a conference, I can quote this to emphasize the impact of educational programs focused on community service.
Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.
Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school - but also leading her village to a better future.
I started calling anti-child labor organizations, asking how I could help. They told me a kid couldn't make any difference, so I decided to start a movement for young people to fight child labor, and to prove them wrong.
Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
Education beats the beauty and the youth.
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
We need literature because we wouldnβt fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.
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