"Service Learning" is a redundant phrase.

I think the phrase "service learning" is redundant.

When you serve other people, you learn more than you could ever realize. You learn how good you have it, how blind you've been to the problems of the world, and how selfish you are some days.
Understand, though, that service is not just giving your money. It's about giving your time. My dad was huge on serving other people--he basically made it his life. Our family was fairly affluent, and he told me that the reason God had given our family so much was so that we could give it to other people who needed it a lot more than we did. He also said, though, that our money was worthless if we didn't give our time to other people as well. He gave his time and himself as often as he could--helping out with Salkehatchie (see one of my older posts), working in Haiti, Honduras, Mississippi, North Carolina, or anywhere else he could.
When you give your time to other people, when you give your whole self, you can't help but learn. Even if you aren't necessarily learning about a specific issue, you are learning about other poeple, and their situation, and how they view life.

And that is why "service learning" is a redundant phrase.

Keep it classy and fabulous!
xoxo, Laura