Essay 11: On Practical Or Service-Learning. (Sometimes Known As The X-Factor Assignment.)

 Write in simple readable prose. Word limit 1000

(a) What kind of service-learning were you doing that makes it  relevant to what this course is? Was it something requiring manual  labor, intellectual help, emotional companionship or any other like  these?

(b) Service-learning means that you interacted with others. What did  such interaction teach you about the people, their circumstances in  life, about yourself?

(c) When you learn to do something usually there are many practices  that you learn. What practice did you learn by serving others?

(d) Why were those practices instructive? What did you learn from them?

(e) Why did those practices matter? What value did they have for you?

(f) Please note that this is a Marianist requirement. Can serving  others also be a good thing for the rest of us members of human beings?