"Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers."

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That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

— John Dewey