4月9日 110415 NA Which is more important: having morefacilities or hiring more teachers?
In recent days, thanks to an ever-increasingnumber of modern and advanced facilities, universities take a new look with easier access tolatest resources and wonderful tools for researches. However, in my view, therole of facilities is no substitute to that of teachers in the classroom, anduniversities should invest on hiring more qualified teachers.
The integral responsibility of a teacher is not only to provide expertise in certainfields but also to set up realistic course goals and give ongoing feedback tohis or her students. That's the reason why we attend schools——formasters rather than facilities. Even some universities, such as my alma mater, may equipwith some hi-tech facilities, which containingautonomous learning system, but we students seldom make the best use of such "virtualteachers" due to the lack of motivation and guidance from someone asin a traditional classrooms. We won't keep ourselves back on track until the teachershows up to announce an approaching quiz or test, a more effective incentive toget us focused again. Besides, a disappointed feedback on assignments orexamines can unveil that either the teacher should revamp the courses or the students shouldrevert our spirits.
Another shortcoming of more facilities yet less teachers is the miss of minds intercourse oncampus. As is known to all, a qualified teacher is also a matchmaker who lights sparks of ideasand thoughts. Every time I watch the Positive Psychology, one of theHarvard open courses, I really admire the teaching methods Professor TalBen employed. It seems he iscapable of seeing through every student's inner heart and taking control of thewhole progress of the course by calling up the right one to speak at the veryright time to elicit the final truth little by little. Like in an orchestra, without the conductor won'tthe performance be that exciting. It's the teacher who creates valuableopportunities for students to communicate, cooperate and even establishfriendships at class. To that note, the best facilities are no match to excellent teachers.
Despite the fact that teachers are essential to effectiveeducation, the role of useful facilities cannot和在一起 be ignored. For example, the PowerPoint andInternet assist our teacher in presenting contents more vivid and resourceful.Also the laboratory equipments and advanced training systems are necessary forsome professional studies.Thus thefacilities can coexistalongside with the teachers in promoting our education standard.
In a nutshell, given the advantages inherent inthe teachers in education, we can never substitute them by any advancedfacility. Nevertheless, universities can set some useful facilities ascomplementary assist to more qualified teachers. 观点清晰,举例生动贴切,几乎没有语法拼写问题。值得学习 |