【Two Week】issue 50by jimpanda,请大牛们看看吧，必定回拍

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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."

提纲：
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理论与实践的关系：理论脱离不开实践的支持，实践能更好的提升理论
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一般情况下，相关职业会提升理论水平
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不是所有专业都需要在外实践，有些专业呈现的职业就是研究本身
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I partly agree with the assertion that all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach in order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level. Although admittedly, practice is tightly connected with and instructive to the academic instruction, but things seems different under different circumstances. Two examples would aptly illustrate that working outside is meaningful but not the mere approach to enhance the quality of instruction.

As an old saying goes:genuine knowledge comes from practice, practice means so much to knowledge that as for the applied subjects, such as management, finance, engineering, in which social practice seems quite important, I advocate faculty working outside in some relevant professions. Take engineering as an example, civil engineering, a comprehensive subject whose final goal is to take in part in practical engineering, not only requires compound knowledge ranging from mathematics to physics and even current specifications, but is also closely associated with social practice. As a professor or a lecturer teaching engineering, he/she may gain a lot of experience through participating in practical projects, which could not be gained from theoretical books. Meanwhile, his/her lecture or lesson would be more vivid by depicting his/her personal experience in construction site, where frequently occur some unpredictable, following the contingency measure. In this way their preparation for the lesson would be flexible and students may be imbued with knowledge in a multidimensional and impressive way and learn quickly. In as similar way, if a teacher have experience in transnational financial corporations, their words would be more reliable and acceptable.

However, situation is different in the basic and theoretical subject teaching. We could regard history, mathematics and physician, etc, as the theoretical subjects, which demand masses of time spent in literature reading, calculating and experiments respectively, irrespective of social practice. As for history, it’s such a unique subject that it focuses on the events that occurred and the figures that passed, which is not related to current people and events, not to mention a related profession in the society. Thus a historian teacher always prefer to stay in the library, dedicate himself/herself in the document, make some comparison and analysis. One may say that a historian could go out to do research on relics and collect some first-hand information, which is the vital factor in historical research. I strongly agree with him/her, but he/she may ignore that work as an archeologist may be referred as research than a profession as raised.

Additionally, you can not tell whether the social profession is appropriate or not when it is executed by art teachers. One may could not even clearly distinguish the profession and the academic teaching in this field, for an art teacher seems also an art profession, As an art teacher, painting, making models at his/her own studio and communicating with students in class may present the best state as an artist, whose ideas and creativity could be sparked out by talking and brainstorming. Meanwhile, the creative ways differ from different people. Some would like to cooperate with others, while others may prefer working solemnly. So what kind of profession would be offered to an artistic teacher? Working in designing or artistic planning companies? Undoubtedly some artist would definitely reject.

In conclusion, I partly agree with the assertion as discussed above, faculty in applied subject c be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach, while for ones teaching theoretical and art subjects, it seems unnecessary.

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