Service Learning

To me, service learning is doing a service to benefit others but also benefits you as you learn something from it. It could be something skill related, such as helping build a playground, which helps you get better at constructing things, or it could be personal, such as mentoring someone and finding out something about yourself. Service learning gives you hand on experience and can be taken to looking at one's own life. What I mean is that while someone is helping out a poor community, one could truly see how good they have it and have a new appreciation for their life. Service learning, particularly mentoring, helps one discover new things about themselves. This is brought about by either their mentoree asking them questions about their mentor or things the mentor teaches the mentoree. So basically service learning not only helps the community but also helps the one doing the service.