Unexpected outcome

I enrolled in this course wanting to complete a philosophy G.E. requirement. I did not expect to have a life changing experience from it, but to my surprise I did.
Before returning to school this fall, I visited the country,Vietnam, and saw how horrible the living conditions were. This made me want to participate in making their community a better place for them to live. I wanted to help change as many lives as possible, but felt that I am just one person, and one person cannot make a difference. Boy, was I wrong.
I started this Philosophy course and had to tutor for a total of 25 hours. I felt that it was a waste of time, but still, I had to do it. When I started to tutor the student, I felt as if I had to be there and I did not care too much of whether the student understood the subject or not. I immediately assumed that he did not care either, so why should I. After tutoring for a few weeks, I realized that I was making a difference. Even though it was not the kind that I expected or wanted, I was still helping in some way. How I perceived the student in the beginning was all wrong. He did care about graduating, and he did care about being a good role model. He just needed that extra push, and I gave that to him. I felt more attached,as Julia calls it, humanizing. I was humanizing him. Then I thought back to the book siddhartha. Siddhartha spoke of not being able to learn from other's teachings but rather to learn through experience. I would not have understood what it means to humanize a person and no matter how much someone would try to explain that, I would probably still not understand . A person is already human, so wouldnt it be contradictory to humanize a human being, so I thought. But this experience taught me what it means to humanize someone.