In the Service of What- Kahne & Westheimer

1. "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

I know this was a John Kennedy quote but i really like it. You still hear this alot now-a-days and it will carry on for a long time. If you ever really just sit and think of this quote you could have many different perspectives for it. When I read it what first comes to mind is that people are lazy and do not like to do things on their own to help out anybody but themselves. Except we have teachers dedicating their lives to help these children and sometimes they get questioned. Referring back to the Christensen article with the teachers getting fired for being gay. They were not trying to hurt anybody they were there to help, and they get fired because of a certain preference they might have. When other people are just trying to cheat the system to get by.

2. "These categories can help clarify our understanding of the possible relationships between service learning activities, their outcomes, and the goals that motivate their design."

Yes granted there are several different ways to look at the service learing projects. No matter what though they clarify the understanding, and everybody is looking to do somewhat of the same thing and help out. Whether it be in one way or another when we get in depth with the project we can learn from the outcomes and the goals they began with.

3. "Government cannot rebuild a family or reclaim a sense of neighborhood."

I completely agree with this quote, and sometimes things are just out of their control. For the most part they do everything they can to hold things together and make our country a better place. Referring back to my first quote about ask what you can do for your country, you can help out in the community and fix things. Help the government because they can't do it all on their own. Although some of us may believe they should be able to, and then we just sit back and let a lot of potentially good things go to waste.

Overall I enjoyed reading the article, and that was especially because they had certain quotes from John Kennedy and certain "higher up" people. I liked to look back and think about these famous quotes that these famous men have said and just analyze and give my own opinion on what they mean. I may be wrong, but we are all entitled to our opinion, and when certain men were in office the country was a better place. The Kennedy quote is really deep for just a short play on words, and it impacts a lot of people still to this day.