Should all faculty spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach, as the statement suggests? In response to this question, as far as I am concerned, I quite support that some of our school faculty do involve themselves in some kind of practical working outside school, an irony tower, if possible under the condition that time is no problem for them. And I will give my reasoning with corresponding examples as follows.
As we know, knowledge is derived from the practical reality which means life within and without the scope of school life is a huge and innumerous knowledge pool. As a teacher, if he or she can digest new knowledge from their truly experiences outside school, obviously, it may return them inspirations, not only for innovative thoughts of a latent new theory or technology, but rather a meaningful teaching method they can use to give lessons to their students. On the one hand, practical training can make our teachers better and more deeply know the background of some theory, which you may find it hard to understand merely through the books. Consequently, it is possible for a teacher to generalize the theory or to innovate a totally new theory as well as it is easier to save your students' suffering with the understanding of the obscure knowledge on the books with your real experiences. On the other hand, the function of knowledge cannot be limited within a narrow scope of books inside the school or library. What we hope is to utilize the knowledge into practical problems occurring now and then here and there, to give impulse to the progress of our society and make contributions to benefitting the human being.
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