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Nowadays, more and more complaints from college students were noticed by people. Students complain that they cannot employ what they learned in college and university for the real and practical application of working. They even say that they cannot really learn something useful and helpful in college and university. Some people think that is because of the low quality of instruction at college and university level, therefore they encourage all the faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the course teacher teach in order to improve the quality of instruction. Can this approach guarantee and ensure the improvement of instruction? I would argue that it may be not always a wise decision and measure to essentially help students improve their academic performance as well as the quality of instruction.
There is no deny that college and university are built up for the development of society and the dissemination of civilization as well. The courses designed in college and university are not all required by the applied job market, while some of them simply focus on the academic and theoritical researches aiming at improving the spiritual and emotional level and development of human's society. Take history for example, we can seldom find the approapriate applied jobs about history, which cannot produce the direct productivity in the materialistic world. But we cannot deny its importance in society' development. Therefore, all faculty teaching history will find no professions relevant to the historical research. These faculties need simply research and investigate various historical materials and documents so as to summarize their thoughts and restore the original history image before the public. Their opinions may guide and mentor the proper developmental path for the whole society. There are also other subjects, such as philosophy, religion and language, all of which provide the spiritual support for the advancement and enhancement of whole society, cannot find the specific professions outside the academic world. Thus, requiring all faculty to spend time working outside may be not a realistic approach.
In addition, the purpose of education of college and university level is not simply produce technicians, architectors and engineers, but great thinkers, researchers and philosophers. Teachers' primary task is to cultivate students' critical and logical ability and should focus on the teaching task. All faculty taking the professions outside the academic world will ultimately dilute the quality of academic experience and progress. For my experience, it hardly exist. The major task for faculties is to promote the instructional level in order to cultivate more talents for society. The result of spending too much time working outside college and university maybe naturally oppose to the initial educational purpose and task. Working outside will possibly distract teachers from the normal teaching process and procedure. As we all know that the teaching loads in college and university are rather heavy, and teachers are in need of giving lessons, supervising students, completing the academic paper, essays and attending colloquiums and discourese. Working outside not only are detrimental for their own teaching and research work, but also detaches the attention and energy of teahcers. Besides that, some of teachers may find that working outside is another effective way to accumulate wealth, which may lead to disatrous consequence for the academic improvement and atmosphere. Further, it also may begender the disorder and difficulties in management of faculties for administrators, which will finally lead to the deterioration of students' academic performances and the quality of instruction.
Admittedly, there are definitely some subjects closely related to the applied job markets which requires graduates master both theoritical and practical knowledge. For instance, law and business, some distinguished professors and scholars are experienced and from the professions relevant to the course they teach. Some colleges and universities invite the successful businessmen and lawyers or judges to give lessons to their students and entitle them in order to give speeches and share the latest information and first-hand cases for their students regularly. This method really works in helping students update the students' knowledge structure. Consequently, the faculties teaching the courses that are more liable to the market and application may possibly spend some time working outside the academic world to experience the real and practical market in order to refresh and exchange their thoughts with the people in those applied fields. To remain their research and academic achievement cutting the edge, it is necessry for some of the faculty to spend some time working outside college and university. However, this action of working outside must be monitored by executive administrations. Provided that the limitation does not have a negative impact on teaching task and academic atmosphere.
We should always bear in mind that the major educational purpose of college and university, which develop and cultivate critical, logical and emotional talents, instead of souless, feckless and efficient laborers. The real improvement of instructional level is to help students think for themselves and form their own original creativity. To improve the instructional level at college and university, teachers should pay much attention to the basic knowledge and research, dedicate to seeking the original and interesting teaching approaches and provide students more beneficial thinking power. Requiring all faculty can possibly undermine the quality of instruction. And, of course, some faculty are necessarily required to familiarize themselves with practical knowldge. As long as they can keep themselves within the boundary of not affecting the normal teaching tasks, this approach may work in some extend. College and university can possibly set rules to manage and monitor it. |
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