The speaker assumes that if all faculties spend time working outside the academic world in profession relevant to the course they teach, their teaching standards will be improved thanks to their practical experience.
We cannot deny that the speed at which the world now is changing far surpasses the update frequency of our academic textbook. And how can a teacher, being ignorant of the changes in his or her field, doing well at teaching the students the most useful and competitive skills?
Experience in real working do help update teachers' knowledge and enrich their workplace experience so that they can apply these to their daily teaching which can enable their students get familiar with the real society we will face with after graduation. Scientific subjects like chemistry and computer science need much pre-job experience so they won't be at loss when they begin to deal with real problems. Journalists’ and reporters need to acquire more or less on-the-scene skills without which they can hardly manage a formal situation that is totally different from the arranged one in the school. Doctors and nurses' job are much more in need of such working experience since the job they are undertaking is of close relation with human life. What they should react before an emergency and how patients' situations will varied is far beyond what is printed on the textbook. Apart from their internship period, students
have fewer opportunities and time to accumulate these knowledge while if their teacher can tell them as much as possible in advance, it will help a lot in their real work.
But the problems are as follows: firstly, not all subjects can provide a real situation for faculty to work in. Subjects like philosophy, math, if isn't combined with other courses, can scarcely have ground to get relevant experience. In other words, some courses even don't have so-called working experience. Textbooks, definition and laws are the only principles they can cline to. For these courses majors, their way to get accustomed to their work may be different from those science and technical subjects. Thus it will be unreasonable and unrealistic to demand the teachers in these fields to work outside the university.Secondly, while the teachers spending time outside, it will surly deduct the time and energy they spend on their main work. Mostly likely this will cause the decrease in the teaching quality and the chance students getting along with the professors. What's worse, if a teacher is too absorbed in his or her part-time job income, he or she may put most of the time in doing not the school work but the social job, such situation is the negative effect for working outside.
What we should indeed do to improve the quality of instruction at college and university level is to apply different methods to various subjects according to their features and give corresponding aid and facilities. It should be encouraged to urge teachers giving lessons in science technology, medicine, and social-related jobs to spend a moderate part of their time working outside the universities, acquiring fresh and up-to-date knowledge and then combine it to their teaching. Those art subjects should be given excellent atmosphere to forester students' disposition.
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