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Celebrate MLK, Jr. Day with a Day of Service

   image on cc license from flickr user "life is good (pete)" Martin Luther King, Jr once stated, "the function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." Certainly, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service 2014, all individuals and students who have a day off of normal activity could enhance their character with service to their fellow man.

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