Voluntyranny at Gallaudet University?

This is pretty much a continuation from my recent blog, Gallaudet's Community Service Requirement - a forced, mandatory volunteer program?

There are certain aspects or components that I simply disagree when it comes to mandatory volunteer service. I see it simply as more detrimental than beneficial since it relies on education on emotions rather than an intellectual one.

For a start...
(1) It is not a volunteer service, so do not call it as one.
(2) Volunteering comes from the heart to serve and help where needed on his/her own time.
(3) It is an obvious social engineering attempt by using "peer pressure" as a way to get students or people to feel guilty and that they must somehow comply and be "one of us."
(4) School officials and educators have disagreed that by making "volunteering" mandatory do not make much sense or that it is seen as a backward step.
(5) There is no spirit of volunteering taking place at all but rather something that is heaped upon instead.
(6) This is about substiting reason with emotions with little intellectual value.

I'm not alone in this at all. John B. Egger, professor of economics at Towson University, recently wrote an article in Academic Questions that the “service learning” trend undermines a free society and subverts the university’s purpose of training the mind.

“By attempting to substitute emotions for reason, service-learning contravenes the purpose of liberal education while chipping away at students’ respect for the social order.”

In other words, this mandatory community service or mandatory voluneerism serves more of an indoctrination purposes than not.

As I said before, volunteering comes from the heart on his own initiative and time. Mandatory volunteer as a requirement does not come from the heart.

According to Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky, who commented on the subject while a senior at Princeton University,

“this darker side of student volunteerism … can undermine young people’s respect for and interest in genuine volunteerism. … In their zeal to recruit Samaritans, colleges have attracted a great number of Pharisees.” Worse, Ramos-Mrosovsky documents cases of bad faith and out-and-out fraud on the part of students to game the service system. Examples include plagiarism, creating original projects to demonstrate leadership rather than participating in existing ones understood to be more beneficial to the needy, and taking credit for service actually performed by parents.

It's all about ideologies at work here and Gallaudet University is one of the many colleges and universities who are pimping this social agenda to new students under the guise of a "feel good" course requirement called "mandatory volunteering." Egger also wrote concerning his view of "good and evil" that this mandatory voluneeter business

“...suppresses and denigrates the individual in favor of a group or ‘society’ and views self-interest as a vice.”

In other words, it's all about peer pressure. And that mandatory community service is actually critical of “individualistic attitudes.” Something that we, as individuals, ought to be ashamed of. How ironic. That alone goes against the very idea of diversity and autonomous thinking. Social engineers are more interested in advancing their idea by using emotions where"charity is moral, but self-interested behavior that respects others’ rights is something for which one must atone." That is about how one shouldn't display individual selfishness but instead be selfless of oneself for the sake of many. These ongoing social engineerings are being done right under our noses.

Hey, I'm not that dumb to see the differences. Call it "voluntyranny." Call it as another form of "soft hazing" by doing something not out of the goodness of your heart but something done in order to earn those brownie points just to graduate. Now, suppose I "volunteer my time" by playing the piano for the public for free, does that count as a "community service" on my part? After all, my service would be free and that it is a source of free entertainment helping people enjoy and relieve stress and tension at the same time.