ABSTRACT
Learning to care is frequently left to chance, or it is perceived as a spare time occupation, undertaken after work, at weekends or in the holidays. Community service can play an important role in combatting innate tendency to self-centredness. One further reason for giving greater attention to learning to care is the arrival of the computer. With the fascination that electronic games exercise on children of younger and younger ages, with the installation of computers in virtually every school, and increasing dependence on high technology in every walk of life, are faced with two alternatives. Many schools have developed nature trails. Suppose, instead, they set out to discover people in the neighbourhood who are quietly living a life of real sacrifice or, in the past, have done some unnoticed or forgotten act of courage or compassion. This might mean pupils consulting a pastor or priest, social workers or the archivists at newspaper office.
