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8.8独立 What is the main role of the university professor, to educate students or to do research?
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, teacher is the most important." is the remark of Bill Gates. Nowadyas, in China, some professors seem quite 'busy', in searching for fundings, in doing their projects, and in preparing their reports. They pay little attention on education. If this phenomenon continues, how can students receive good education in college, how can they learn good virtues like dedication from their role model- professor, and how can they become competitive over their peers in the job market in the future?
At first, I would explore some obvious reasons why so many professors focus on doing reserch. Because everyone, including professors, has rights to strive for his own well-being, it sounds quite reasonable that so many professors hunt for happiness by doing research, even worse, sometimes by ignoring(belittle?) their teaching task. Research benefits professors a lot. They can improve academic skills, gain recognition from others, and make money. In short,all of these---academic skills, recognition,and money---enhance their social status. However,undoubtedly,To impart knowledge IS professors' responsibility and To foster the youth who are the hope of our country IS the professors' obligation. Although research is of importance for professors,teaching should not be ignored.
Teaching offers professors a opportunity to improve themselves. Although preparing some subjects needs time and energy, and sometimes may take up professors' time spending on research, during preparing such courses- analytical writing, mechanical engineering, basic chemistry etc.- basic knowledge which is the foundation of innovations may be reviewed, new ideas which could be used to solve urgent problems may come up into mind , and skills such as analytical thinking and observation which are great helpful for both in reports and academic skills may as well be sharpened. Moreover, a famous Chinese philosopher -Confucius-said: in reviewing, we learnt new. In other words, through teaching, professors could review knowledge, get inspirations and sharpen skills, meanwhile students could learn new things. It is a win-win situation.
In addition,when professors are occupied with projects, students could do a favor for them. Beacuse some tasks in a project do not need high academic background, Most students are able to finish most of the tasks in a project. For saving time and energy, it is wiser for professors to get assistance from their students, which leave students a chance to know how to link virtual knowledge between practical application. For example, my brother,who majored in Computer Science in Beijing University, Mike, is working in IBM as a product manager. When he was in college, his mentor, who was very famous and had many research projets at the same time, gave him and his classmates many opportunities to get involved in projects. They learnt a lot from those projects,such as how to look for resources, how to write a report and so on. Owing to his valuable research experiences and his academic background, after he graduated, he fortunately got an offer from IBM. This case is not rare, many students learn a lot in helping their professors.
From what has been discussed above, we may aware that in reality education and research do not contradict each other, but obviously education is prior to research.
发现自己词汇使用不够丰富,高级点的词汇掌握的太少了。
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