本帖最后由 zhangxiaohang1 于 2010-7-7 14:17 编辑
题目:50"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."
A few decades ago, it is not very common for faculty to working out of academia. As the advent of information era, professors in some fields may no longer comprehend the rapid upgrading of knowledge by merely sitting in his attic reading books(有内容删除). Yet this is not to say, all faculty no matter which field he devotes to should be required to do so. Whether students, teachers and universities can benefit from it by interspersing working with academic requires case in case analyze.
Admittedly, sometimes instructors who spend time working outside can improve the quality of instruction and hence have (有内容删除)benefits to students. Since we have been in a time that all things are changing rapidly and the world is eventful as everyday pass, professors in some areas, especially social science, need to keep pace with cutting edge issues, otherwise his knowledge may be too out of date to be [url=]instructed[/url][微软用户1] to students. Take the jurist for an example, by offering advises as consultants, they can contact with the newest and considerable amount of cases which cannot gain from old books(有内容删除). Meanwhile, by bringing those precious social cases into class, instructors create a new approach, which unimaginably broaden students’ horizon and [url=]enrich their brains[/url][微软用户2] . Also, for those who choose to hunt for jobs after graduation, teachers with working (有内容删除)experience will be more helpful in giving recommends on what qualities in this field entail or what the current labor market is. More fortunately, in some cases, (有内容删除)teachers with working experience can recommend his students to some suitable positions in his working place through his own personal network of relationships. Naturally, students can gain more opportunities from their teachers’ working experience outside academia.
Students apart, it is also probable for professors to improve their eloquence and gain higher credit through all sorts of opportunities to nourish themselves. One of my teachers in university had been living in America for 12 years, so he often encountered embarrassment after coming back to homeland since he (有内容删除)didn’t know how to express his ideas to students in native language. Afterwards, he came up with an idea that he seized as many opportunities as possible to give speeches attended by the clerks of several companies. As a consequence, he quickly fitted into his new style of instruction and become so eloquent due to his [url=]self-force[/url][微软用户3] to work outside academia. Further more, working in real world will bring professors enormous resources to testify and create their theories in the virtual world.
Taking feasibility and characteristics of some fields into account, however, I have to say it’s unfair and impossible to require every instructor to leave his attic for a job regardless of any other factors. Actually, some fields like literature and philosophies have little market value, therefore the professors have apparent difficult in finding jobs relevant to the field he teaches outside. The manegers of companies don’t need a philosopher to tell his the meaning of human life or we live for what and why. Moreover, other fields like physics need a considerable time to conduct and observe their experiments, which seems to do more good to their teaching and research career. Even worse, mindful of the possible unexpected side effect, the measure that all faculties should work outside academia to improve the teaching quality may turn out to deviate from its original goal. Over encouraging teachers to working outside may [url=]share[/url][微软用户4] the time which is necessary to preparing for class. Imagine! If all faculties are busy with business or earning money,[url=] will they lean heavily on students’ papers?[/url][微软用户5]
From my opinion, it’s admirable to consider carrying out some measures to improve the quality of education in university. Nevertheless, before we hastily decide to force all faculties to work outside, we should also consider the differences of each field and the possible worries. To build a good university for students and teacher, not only requiring contact with real changeable world, but also the liberal atmosphere to stimulate students to explore unknown world as Harvard’s motto says: Make friends with Aristotle, with Plato and with the truth.
[微软用户1]这个貌似词只能接人不能接知识吧?
[微软用户2]刚觉有点问题。。
[微软用户3]这个词什么意思?
[微软用户4]觉得有点问题,但不知道怎么改。囧
[微软用户5]这句也没读懂。
觉得长句好多啊!可能是我好久没看文章了。。。读着有点费劲。。。呵呵,没给你改主体。不知是否满意,若不满意短消息我!附上WORD文档,这样看的舒服点!:-) |