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Colleges and community service
The Treasury and Education Departments are currently studying the idea of making community service mandatory for anyone who wants to receive a tax credit for college tuition. Sounds good, doesn't it? After all, who could be against the idea of helping others? In today's Washington Examiner, Anne Neal reminds us that a "college education is about education. It's about cultivating a love of learning in students and giving them the skills and knowledge they need to become informed citizens and effective workers. It is most emphatically not about having the government dictate how students spend their time and live their lives." She argues that voluntary service should remain voluntary and that universities should stick to their educational purposes: "we should oppose any efforts by Congress to mandate community service -- something that students, by any definition, should voluntarily choose -- particularly when the available evidence suggests that students desperately need to be focused on learning, not something else."
Posted by David Azerrad on July 15, 2010 at July 15, 2010 12:06 PM
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