【0906G 文以载道三月四月小组】1.23作业

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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."


Should faculties spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach? In my opinion, I agree with this point insofar as the aim at increasing experience and improving teaching abilities. However, when it comes to the aim at making extra money, I insist the outside work can’t be propitious to the improvement of teaching quality.
To begin with, the academic production serves to the societal advancement which improves people’s lives as well as progresses the economy. The combination of the science and society can make the world better. In order to achieve this, faculties in college and university have to do some research and study more on the things outside the academic world. For instance, the more concentration on the environmental phenomenon is useful for a faculty to teach the students majoring in environmental science. Working on the effluents emission and studying on the climate change can enrich faculty’s insight. During the research, one can find these problems result in a series of consequences. Not only the results learned from the book, but also new serious aftermath such as the storms as well as floods happening frequently recent years will be studied and imparted to students by faculty. Thus, during this process the pressing problems can be solved and the quality of instruction is enhanced.
Furthermore, some work outside the academic world can improve the faculty’s abilities. For instance, faculties always give lectures to peers and populace in conferences and socially useful activities. Only making the lecture accurate and credible, peers can accept one’s opinion; only making the lecture simple and understandable, populace can know one’s theory. Faculties have to organize his speech orderly and present his production visually and therefore their skills to disseminate opinions will be perfect gradually, finally students can benefit from the improvement of faculties themselves.
However, the shortcomings of working outside the academic world are incontestable. Too much extra work will distract the faculties’ attention from their main research. Busy with other trifles, the academic research will be impeded, let alone the quality of instruction to the students. Also, in order to maximize their profit, faculties may choose to teach in amateurish schools for high salary. Faculties’ energy is limited and the balance between work inside and outside the academic world is hard to strike. This must bring a negative effect on their regular work at college and university.
In sum, spending time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach can improve the teaching quality to some extent, albeit these work may have faculties attention diverted and lead to the decline of the instruction quality. To inhibit this phenomenon the college and university should put forward some regulations about outside work and in this way a bumper harvest will be reaped.