TOEFL Essay question Hiring Famous Professors
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>Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
类似真题--To improve the quality of education, universities should spend money on improving facilities (labs and general equipment) rather than hiring famous teachers and paying higher salaries.
类似真题--It is more worthwhile for a university to spend money on improving facilities than on hiring high-quality professors.
Give specific reasons and examples or details to support your answer.
#Example essay by Jeenn Lee Hsieh (ielts360toefl@hotmail.com )
Beyond the image of being a quantity of buildings gathered around the library, a university of excellency is where students can learn to become outstanding from high-quality teachers. You cannot expect first-class learning by students if they get second-class teaching by professors. For a university, it is no less important to hire first-class professors than to spend money on improving facilities.
On the one hand, investing properly in the general equipment is usually worthwhile. It goes without saying that universities should provide "hardware" facilities, ranging from labs to libraries, to function as academic institutions. At this point, you might as well compare a university to a restaurant in that a university without such facilities is like a restaurant without a good kitchen. This analogy means that investments in improving the university's hardware are not a waste of money. On the contrary, money well-spent to improve the university facilities benefits students in their pursuit of knowledge or the mental food prepared by their distinguished teachers. In most cases, spending enough money on improving all kinds of campus facilities should be considered as necessary, to be sure; but enough is enough.
On the other hand, it is arguable that not enough money is being spent on paying higher salaries for contracting famous professors who turn out to be the master brains or "software" in universities. To illustrate this claim, the university/restaurant analogy also applies. A university which does not have high-quality professors is no better than a restaurant which does not have high-quality chefs. Knowledge being food for students, well-paid professors make knowledge desirable in a similar way that famous chefs make food delicious. Based on this comparison, it is appropriate to think that it is the chefs rather than the kitchen, and that professors rather than the facilities, that matter more. Specifically, to improve the quality of education at the university level, the importance of well-paid professors cannot be over-emphasized.
In summary, the success of higher education is measured by the quality of professors rather than the quantity of facilities on the campus. First-class teachers, not necessarily first-class facilities, breed first-class students, so to speak. Universties had better spend more money on hiring salaries, then, the only thing students have to pay is attention. (Essay created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh)
