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73. Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
提纲:
1.有些学科是应该和实际结合:应用类学科,经济学,工科等
2.但有些纯理论性的去做相关的工作的话很难与实际结合起来,找到这种相应的工作,反而会浪费时间比如哲学理论数学 Chen Jingrun
3.因此盲目实行这个政策,对一些学科是好的,对另一些学科可能会导致本末倒置的后果。。
4.得出结论应该依学科而定
issue:
Can applying theories to practice really work when professions are required to spend time working outside? Admittedly, some people may give the positive answer with the reason that theories are served for reality. However, I'm partly agree with the statement in that it depends on what the subject the professions study for.
To begin with, no one will deny that in some field, some theories are studied only to make the society better, and these theories are served for reality. Admittedly, one may not acknowledge that because it seems realism and utilitarian, yet in some fields some subjects are born with the mission that make life better. Subjects, such as economics, engineering, accounting are come immediately to our mind. More specifically, economics, one subject that is popular around the world, is studying in the nation's economics and make some economic policy basing on the both the data and models. Only if the theories are combined with the practice, could the economics seems more attractive in that the current situation test whether the theories are correct or not. And that professions teach with combining the theories with their own observation and experience , whohave a different angle to treat the theories, have the more possibility to make their class profound and vivid, thus students can learn quite more from the class.
However, some subjects are so difficult that they cannot be combined with practice, resulting in professions cannot find such work relevant to the course they teach. Theoretical mathematics, Theoretical physics, philosophy are such subjects; after all, would theoretical mathematics prefer working outside to stay at college to calculate those abstruse characters?Accordingly, it is not feasible to require all the professions to spend time working outside the academic world. paragon such as Chen Jingrun, whojust stayed at the college do nothing but calculating and teaching, working out the famous Goldbach Conjecture, comes immediately to mind.
Furthermore,If the policy is implemented well, it is no doubt that some subjects develop better because student learn more about the reality and practice rather than justdrawing from the tower of ivory. But on the other hand, some purely theoretical subjects may stop developing, even drawing back. After all, these theoretical subjects need more image and critical thinking, rather than apply to practicing. For example, what philosophical professions do is look up the canons, and summarize their own thoughts. Sounding easy, but in fact it is greatly difficult to think and explore the world of thoughts, and combining with work practice waste their time and benefit nothing for his theories studying. In other words, whether a subjects should applying to the practice or not totally depends on the nature of the subject and the purpose of the subjects studying. It cannot be applied to all the fields without any consideration.
To sum up, in some fields, professions' experience of working outside the academic world will attribute a better quality to teaching. However, this one-side policy cannot meet all the fields either. So what college should do to improve their quality of teaching is take other factors into consideration, such as building a free atmosphere for studying or underscoring directing student to explore the academic world theirselves, while how to implement these or other policies is far beyond the topic we are discussing about.
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