Stepping Outa student's guide to education beyond the classroom |
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ALTRUISM
Altruism: n. The
belief that acting for the benefit of others is right and good.
Many young people do not have money to give. But we do have time, energy, idealism, creativity, and many other skills. Stepping out is a great opportunity to do something for the benefit of others: volunteer for a non-profit, help at-risk kids learn to read, or build schools abroad. Consider this: The very notion that if you are contemplating stepping out of school, it means you have the luxury of education, something many people are never given (worldwide 121 million children are without schooling). ![]() |
| "To be honest,
the main reason I decided to come to Africa was because I didn't know
what to do right after college. If I would have obtained a good
job in my field of study, political science, I probably never would
have traveled. Now that I am here [in Ghana}, I have found
that there is a certain satisfaction that comes out of charitable
volunteer work that can't be found via successes in the American Dream.
While I am still young and hopefully have some of the
successes awaiting me in the future, I will always know where to find
my true happiness. -Seth Prickett, 23 (above, teaching in Ghana) |