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For Which We Serve |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Fred Friedman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,966 Words, 12,356 Characters |
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A CITY YEAR
On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods
with Twelve Community Service Volunteers
Suzanne Goldsmith
New York: New Press, 1992
278 pp., $22.95
In 1768, Edmund Burke, in a famous address to Parliament, spoke of the importance of "the little platoons of society," the churches, guilds, and other communal institutions that brought a sense of order and stability to daily life. Burke believed that in a nation racked by sharp class distinctions and entering a period of rapid and chaotic change, the one way to ensure a sense of national purpose and cohesion was to insist that all citizens engage in some service to society, in particular, helping the less fortunate. Burke felt that the strength and success of a democratic polity depended, in part, on the active participation of...
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...nal service be phased in slowly and cautiously and that problems be corrected quickly.
City Year offers some valuable lessons, but it is not the last word on national service. On the contrary, it should be the beginning of a sober and thoughtful debate about the obligations of citizenship and service to the community as the nation embarks on its third century of democratic governance. vbcrlf
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