Some people think that university students should be able to choose whether to go to classes or not. I could not disagree more with this idea. Even though students can have excused absences, for example, when they are sick or have something emergent to attend, generally they should be required to go to classes. In fact, attending classes has many advantages, three of them most important: learning from the teacher, interacting with classmates, and developing responsibility. Attending classes has the benefit of receiving the best that a teacher can offer. Good teachers review the difficult and key pints of the material in the course textbook. The best teachers do more than this. They conduct group discussion of the material, and present alternative points of view on the same issue. This increases students real understanding and critical thinking. Moreover, teachers supplement the textbook material with information provide by guest speakers, which further enhances students understanding. All this implies that, if students are absent from class, it is tantamount to forfeiting their right to full benefits of teacher-guided learning in class.
有些人认为大学生应该能够选择是否去上课。我就更不可能不同意这一观点。尽管学生可以原谅缺席,例如,当他们生病或有紧急的事情要参加,一般他们应该被要求去上课。事实上,上课有很多优势,其中三个最重要的是:向老师学习,和同学们交流,发展的责任。上课的接受老师所能提供最好的。好教师评审材料的困难和关键品脱的教科书。最好的老师比这做得更多。他们进行小组讨论的材料,现在选择在同一问题上的观点。这增加学生的真正理解和批判性思维。此外,教师的补充教材与嘉宾提供的信息材料,进一步提高学生的理解。所有这一切意味着,如果从类学生缺席,这等同于丧失他们的全部好处的新型学习在课堂上。
Going to classes also helps students learn how to work with their classmates. In class, students need to put forward their ideas. They have to take questions from their classmates and when their classmates have a different point of view, they have to defend their own. All this is conducted in a friendly manner. Interaction of this kind teaches students about how to work with other people. Finally, going to classes enables students to develop responsibility. Having to finish all the assigned readings before class helps prepare them for getting a job. So does the requirement of being punctual for class. Similarly, having to complete assignment on time for class helps them to foster responsibility. Admittedly, students can obtain information from books, but they benefit a great deal more when they go to classes. They have the advantage of learning from their teacher, of interacting with other people, and of developing the responsibility required of a good worker as well as a good student. If these skills in life are in no sense optional, how can attending classes in a university be optional?
将类还可以帮助学生们学习如何与同学合作。在课堂上,学生需要提出自己的想法。他们需要提问同学,当同学有不同的观点,他们必须为自己辩护。这一切都是在友好的方式进行的。这种互动教学生如何与他人的工作。最后,将课程能让学生发展的责任。在上课前必须完成所有指定的阅读帮助他们为找工作做准备。准时上课的要求也是如此。同样,必须按时完成作业上课帮助他们培养的责任。诚然,学生可以从书本中获取信息,但是他们去时受益更多的类。他们从他们的老师学习的优点,与别人交流和发展所要求的责任好员工以及一个好学生。如果这些技能在生活中没有意义可选的,怎么能参加大学课程是可选的?