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修改稿TOPIC: ISSUE50 - "In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach."WORDS: 656 Academic colleges and universities are places to educate students and to develop new science and technologies; professions are places to make products to fulfill customers’ needs and services. Some of the academic subjects develop new technologies needed by the professions to improve their products' selling; other academic subjects just search new findings to add science knowledge. Some of the professors have a few works to do in their academic life, but others are busy teaching and doing research which took all time. So, whether the faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world depends on different situations. The faculty whose works are directly used by the professions such as business, automatic, and medicine needs to contact with their relevant professions and even works in those professions for some time. Take a pharmacy professor for example. During his past years, he received plenty of awards by developing new antibiotic. He is proud of that and continued to develop newer antibiotics again and again by extremely hard work. He is supposed to receive more awards and money by doing so; however, he was disappointed after continuous working for several years because people need few antibiotics for its side-effect. This professor failed, however intelligence, for lacking the knowledge of people's demands. If he spent some time working in the relevant company, his tragedy would never happen. Working outside the campus in relevant professions would not only made them understand the customers’ contemporary demands, but also finding some deficiencies to be resolve in their future studies. For example, an automatic professor found the car's engine has less efficiency during his working in the car's company. He ignited by some very good ideas to solve this problem. But if he always stays in his laboratory, he would never have caught this opportunity. Academic colleges and universities also have their duty to cultivate students to find a good job, which means professors working outside the campus would provide them more information about what kind of people the companies’ needs.Professors would use the most proper teaching method to educate their students to help them finding a good job in the market. That is actually why so many students want to go to college instead of working directly. On the other hand, some type of faculty who devote their life in science such as mathematicians, archaeologist, and biologists need not to work outside the campus. What they do is nothing to do with the demands of the customs, but the science only. Imagine what an astronomer should do? Of course watch the space through the latest telescope. Is that means he must spend some time in a telescope company? No kidding, it is nothing to do with him, provide a latest telescope is not their duty. What they should do is just using their knowledge to searchin the space for the space exploitation. Moreover, the theoretical scientists need not to be care of how their reaching would affect human society. What in front them is anunknown world. They do not know whether their researches are good or bad for the society. If they abandoned their researches just for the unknown threaten, the science would never made process because just as every coin has two sides, every process has two sides too. Machines brought convenience and, at the same time, the greenhouse effect;the technologies with nuclear energy are not just the atomic bomb, but the less pollution nuclear power station. Using the science properly is the decided by technician's moral, by the society's value and the government's efforts, but not the theoretical scientists. Why they need to waste their time on outside work to gain the abilities they need not? In the end, it is a quite complex problem whether the faculties should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach. We must consider it in different situations, not just conclude as "all must". |