Re: [寫作班] 托福第30週

[fizeau (.)]

※ 引述《dvlin (Dee)》之銘言：
: Choose one of the following topics:
: 1. Some people believe that students should be given one long vacation each
:    year. Others believe that students should have several short vacations
:    throughout the year. Which viewpoint do you agree with?
This issue can be viewed from two angles. First, in the position of the
school, you can think of it as an institution working like a business
model, which means it has to take into consideration how much returns with
respect to how much investment. For the academic industry, the substantial
returns not necessarily come only from the financial, but more importantly,
the academic performance of the teaching staff and students. And since how
would a school's professional staff and students perform in various fields
is somewhat unpredictable and subjective, the administrative branch of the
school should focus on what they can ensure--the smoothness of the learning
and teaching process.

To ensure an educational institution functions smoothly, it needs robust
infrastructure, including ample cable networks, high quality teaching
classrooms, special laboratories and adequate labwares to experiment with. And
even standard sporting fields and courts. Some need regular overhaul and
retrofitting. When the time to fix and construct comes, it'd better happen
on a recess, which means no pedestrians come and go, interrupting the process
of construction. So this justifies the existence of long vacations.

Second, in the position of the student, they can benefit from the extra time
to engage in different kinds of learning activities. They can even initiate
and host those activities, enjoying certain degree of political freedom. In
fact, for a student as a consumer, he or she should care how much one can learn
from the tuition which has been paid. The professor teach all they have to
teach, in whatever method, and the student should absorb no matter how. And
a long vacation is exactly when they can think about it.

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