[寫作班] 托福第16週 fizeau,1
Some universities require students to take classes in many subjects. Other
universities require students to specialize in one subject. Which is better?
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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Assume both the school and the student act for their own good--the so-called
rational behavior. The school provides learning resources such as professors
and laboratories, of which the expenditure will finally materialize in the
financial statement, for the student enrolled who have paid a fixed price
for an uncertain amount of goods in the university. Out of the self-interest
principle, the student would want to gain as many commodities--the learning
resources in those curricular courses--as possible, while the school hope to
lower the cost to increase as much the balance after cost deduction.
Therefore if left unchecked, the school aim to achieve the lowest the ratio
of educational resources to student number which means the amount of commodity
of knowledge per student, and the student aim to achieve the highest per
unit of tuition.
There exists the controlling mechanism. When the learning resource to tuition
ratio dips to certain value, students who graduate will not have enough exper-
tise, so their performance on the job market is inferior to peers. The ensuing
bad reputation for the training insitution would gradually siphon off its
customers.
In order to survive, the school has to have some quality control of its
trainees. That means a low-limit of the ratio. The school has to ensure a
student has enough courses options to choose from. In the classroom, the
attendee number cannot be too high or the instructor couldn't take care of
each one of them, but if the attendee number is too low, there would be a
waste of resource.
So the administrative department concerned stipulates various required courses
to take before a student graduates, which depends on his or her major. In
the required subject, attendees not in related departments may not be permitted
, to insure against compromised teaching quality.
Beyond major subjects, the students should be allowed to select from different
realms of knowledge to give certain flexibility of future development. As for
the selective courses, the upper limit of attendee number can be higher since
the quality demand is not that specific.
To sum up, the university requires the student to take certain subjects to
maintain their level of specialty, which also prevents too much of fluctuation
in attendee number distribution of courses. If a student aspires to learn
as many subjects as efficiently, he or she has to strike a balance, since
as courses taken increase, the time schedule would get tighter, which squeezes
the studying time.
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