All developed nations make school children understand the need for serving their community voluntarily, and those children who go the extra mile in this line are given inventive scores.

• Do you think schooling of that sort would serve children in the long run?
• How do see the provision for incentive scores?

Today’s children are the architects of the days to come. In this respect, realizing the need for voluntary services is bound to serve them greatly. However, offering incentives scores may make the very concept lose its sheen.

Let me first see how this realization is going to serve them. Being a social animal man is bound to be part of a system of heterogeneous people. This makes people extremely interdependent. Secondly, human needs are diverse and it is humanly impossible to predict what life keeps in store for one.

Let me cite an example to prove it. What one is going to need when, and who is going to serve whom with what, or who is going to get served by whom and the like are of no human reach, and we cannot expect the society to pay for every thing. Obviously if school children can imbibe the value of selfless service to community, they would lead better lives and let others live the same way.

When it comes to offering incentive scores for children, I am inclined to say that it would spoil the voluntary nature of the very idea. ‘Voluntary service’, by definition, is doing something for some without expecting anything. Here comes the question of incentives. School children may take up voluntary initiatives at least to satisfy their performance requirements in terms of marks. Therefore, I do not think it is a good idea to reward those who go the extra mile.

In short, it is an excellent idea to take children to the basic lessons of voluntary service, and it would serve them immensely well. But rewarding their efforts may make many children willfully go for it. I would spoil the very, I am afraid.

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