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Why Do Social Work?

--by J. Krishnamurti (Jan 23, 2012)

Q:  "I want to do social work, but I don't know how to start."   Krishnamurti: I think it is very important to find out not how to start, but why you want to do social work at all. Why do you want to do social work? Is it because you see misery in the world-starvation, disease, exploitation, the brutal indifference of great wealth side by side with appalling poverty, the enmity between man and man? Is that the reason? Do you want to do social work because in your heart...

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