Educating the good citizen

This article was by Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kaphne. In the article there are many aspect of perspective about education of making civics become good. In the beginning they give out three characteristic of a good civic be. These three kinds are personally responsible, participatory, and Justice –oriented citizens. Then, the author is writing analysis of conflict situation. For example, citizen with no politics. At the End it talks about the solution of the problem.

In the community there are many kinds of good citizens and they have different characteristic. The Article analyzed into three basic character. First characteristic is personally responsible citizen. It is basically mean community contributor. The second one is Participatory citizen and it means people that participate and care about local event. And the last one, Justice- oriented citizens. They are people who think beyond the community and determine whether things are right or ethical.

After all the explanations, the author is analyzing the extreme situations. In the article, the author talks about the situation that when people do not have democracy. In that paragraph, he talks about the situation when good citizens do not have democracy. The conclusion that he made was that people will not have democracy but still being good. The reason is that in some circumstance democracy do not apply to being good citizen.

In last paragraph the author telling the solution. His solution of solving problem is forming education politics and community service organization.

In conclusion, I think the idea of organize more community service. If school and government do not emphasize it and be serious about it. No one will really care or know. I feel that we should make community service be similar to military obligation or count as a grade.