Reauthorization of the Domestic Volunteer Programs of the ACTION Agency: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, Hearings Held in Washington, D.C. on April 30 and May 1, 1981 |
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Page 64 - Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.
Page 42 - The highest degree, than which there is nothing higher, is to take hold of a Jew who has been crushed and to give him a gift or a loan or to enter into partnership with him, or to find work for him, and then to put him on his feet so he will not be dependent on his fellow man.
Page 77 - Service-Learning (NCSL) provides advice, training, and technical assistance to 2,000 colleges and 3,000 high schools that have active student volunteer programs. In this program, ACTION has a double agenda: first, to acquaint student volunteers with opportunities to serve those most in need, solving problems of hunger, health, illiteracy and community development, and second, to demonstrate the experience of volunteering serves a vital educational need in developing social consciousness in youth.
Page 16 - Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.
Page 98 - The committee is adjourned. [Whereupon, at 1:32 pm, the committees were adjourned, to reconvene at the call of the Chair.] [Material submitted for inclusion in the record follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. BILL EMERSON, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MISSOURI MR. CHAIRAN, TODAY THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON HUÜG2R IS HOOTS'!
Page 77 - We have not given up on service-learning programs. Today, over 400,000 college students are spending part of their time as volunteers to help others. This movement is also present in high schools and is a signal of the concerned citizenship that can be expected from the coming generation of leaders. The National Student Volunteer Program provides advice, training and technical assistance to 2,000 colleges and 3,000 high schools that have active student volunteer programs.
Page 77 - ... programs. In this program, ACTION has a double agenda: first, to acquaint student volunteers with opportunities to serve those most in need, solving problems of hunger, health, illiteracy and community development; second, that the experience of volunteering serves a vital educational need in developing a social consciousness in youth. Volunteer programs do not usually appeal to students with personal problems, incarcerated youth, underachievers, drop-outs. We want to develop volunteer programs...
Page 15 - Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you again for holding this hearing on farmland preservation which has proven to be a very timely topic across the nation.
Page 15 - But since it is down, my friend, and it may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
Page 41 - About one-half (52 percent) of America's urban residents say they would be willing to serve without pay on city advisory committees to study problems facing their cities and to make recommendations. About two in three (64 percent) express a willingness to serve on committees devoted to the specific problems facing their own neighborhoods. A still larger majority, seven in ten (69 percent), state they would be willing to engage in specific neighborhood activities, including assisting in the performance...