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To encourage students to have involved in volunteer work, some universities give incentives to their students. Some people strongly agree with this idea while there are also many people who are against it. In my own opinion, it is not a beneficial method for both students and universities in terms of letting students know the real value of volunteer work. My reasons are below. First of all, many students participate in volunteer activities for the sake of just themselves because not only they can award some credits from their faculty but also avoid taking difficult courses by doing volunteer work. For example, when I was in university, I and my friends volunteered to gain credits and also not to take difficult academic courses for us. In this regard, volunteer work can be used by us and other students instead of attending tricky courses. According to the National Education Research Center in Seoul, over 95 percent of college students attend volunteer work in 2014 but of them, only about a quarter of students feel sense of proud or satisfaction through volunteer activities. In addition, most of the students do not know the real value and meaning of community work although they show high attendance rate of those activities. In conclusion, from what has been stated above, providing students with incentives for participating in volunteer work is not a good method because it will be only a way to get necessary credits for students. Furthermore, those works do not transform students to involve in volunteer work with feeling of willingly compassion. |