issue50【jet小组】 第四次作业

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Considering the correct philosophical side that the speaker takes, it is quite sound, even necessary, to require faculty spend time working outside the academic world with the purpose of improving the quality of instruction at the college.  However, the speaker necessarily extends this broad assertion to embrace all, who mistakenly ignores some inherent nature of particular subjects and requirement from reality, which might cause some sort of dissipation of education resources, as discussed below.

Working outside the academic world is the innate requirement of some subjects such as mechanical manufacturing, industrial engineering and medical caring, whose aims are to control, remedy or create something to release human’s burden in sweatshops and other exhausting conditions. Consider a profession on surgical operation, no matter how excellent his academic achievements are, he is only a repeater of written books, which I mean his doctrine is not interesting, instructive and effective, let alone enlightened. If he engage in some operations, whether an assistant or a surgeon, with experience accumulated and practical knowledge enlarged, he can combine what is in written books with what applies in reality. So that, his doctrine would be funny and inspiring, for the introduction of some real cases he really experienced which adds dimensions and richness to his students.

Working outside the academic world serves not only a great improvement for faculty’s ability to combine theory with practice, but also good news for students. Such fortunate ones would get access to touch the most up-to-date information of their own fields and choose the path of their further study. An ambitious young man, no matter how diligent a student or intelligent a genius, might be interested in the such subject –theory physics of the universe, to which he is determined to devote rest of his life. This one may be a next Einstein or Hawkins, whose theory on the universe totally change public’s notion of time, space and motion. After all, interest is the best teacher of one’s studying. Accordingly, if the faculty’s working experience of some relevant fields do arise some students’ desire for exploration of uncharted territory, courage to be a advancer in his particular fields, even a fantasy of being reformer in science to establish a unpredictable systematic method of thinking and researching, this faculty is a qualified one –apart from the responsibility of instilling knowledge—he/she really enlighten the students’ inspiration to be innovative, motivates their desire to mitigate human’s enduring sufferings ,and stimulate their insatiable appetite for the unknown—which is ultimate goal of education.

Notwithstanding such benefits, both for faculty and students, the speaker should extend the board to all faculties in such a hasty, which might bring about something worthy rethinking and checking. Returning to the example mentioned previously, the faculty of theoretical research, something abstract or depending on logical inference, reasoning and deduction, is not adequate to engage in work outside academia, at least more circumspect about choices. After all, on one hand, such opportunities are quite rare, considering inherent nature of these subjects—focused more on personal creative thoughts and individual diligence. Even if there is some work relevant to their academia, query the devotion in term of time, money and energy, to work, on the other hand , is worthwhile which would bring up a more brightening and far-reaching achievement in academia. If not, it would be the sort of dissipation of education resources.

In sum, I fundamentally agree with the speaker’s assertion that both faculty and students are beneficiaries of such activity. However, as to different subjects ranging from abstract researches to utilitarian ones, we also insist a case-by-case basis: to utilitarian subjects, we should require, encourage, even create opportunities, while to abstract researches; we should be more cautious and restrained.