Recently, the television technologies develop sharply and play more and more important roles in our society. The speaker draws a conclusion that watching television will take the place of reading books with the phenomenon above. While deep considering the advantages and disadvantages of both television and books, I have a different attitude that although watching television is a important way to get information while reading books does not loss its use in out learning.
At any rate, more and more people have the trend that get information, have a spiritual rest and even pay attention to political by watching television. Admittedly, watching television is really a fast way to learn our society and the world. It is the best method for someone who like learn something with direct video and audio. In other areas in the society, a company or factory could raise their known-degree by advertising on television. Also it is a good way for the one who want to be the president to win the vote playing his/her speak on television. Anyway, we cannot look down on the television for its use in modern.
However, reading books is still the main method for most people to learn the knowledge. One would be used in learn something by reading from childhood to university age. And comparing with the television, the books is easier taken with one and used to learn in a short time. It is hardly to image that one will put out a television from his/her package and watch it when he/she is waiting for a bus. So, although watching television brings us a fast way to get information, reading books is the basically and general way to learn.
Actually, we should judge things with a developing view. In this issue, watching television or reading books is not a problem as a proverb says "A door must be either shut or open" . There are many interactions between them. For example, on one hand, some books like magazines and newspaper can help people know about the event which may be also reported on television. On the other hand, television classroom and multi-media became a useful associate of teaching and learning in a traditional way. One can learn by both watching television and reading books, the former of which brings his/her recent information while the latter of which brings his/her the traditional and universal knowledge, for neither of them could be omit.
To sum up, we can safely draw a conclusion that we need to find a balance between watching television and reading books in our learning and we can not regard them independent with each other. In another word, one watching television could read books too and no one will stop you watching television for you reading books. What we need do is only thinking about how and when to watch television or read books rather to choose one of them and abandon another. If all of us can well deal with finding the balance, we will believe in that our society will develop sharply for the high quantity citizen.
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The University of Claria is generally considered one of the best universities in the world because of its instructors' reputation, which is based primarily on the extensive research and publishing record of certain faculty members. In addition, several faculty members are internationally renowned as leaders in their fields. For example, many of the faculty from the English department are regularly invited to teach at universities in other countries. Furthermore, two recent graduates of the physics department have gone on to become candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physics. And 75 percent of the students are able to find employment after graduating. Therefore, because of the reputation of its faculty, the University of Claria should be the obvious choice for anyone seeking a quality education.
The argument that university of claria would be the best choice for education based on the facts provided is not entirely convincing.The reasons provided for the reputation of the university are not substantial enough to conclude that it is the best university.
To begin with, deciding the reputation of a university based on the instructers' reputation is illogical.The instructers may be doing excellent research in their respective fields.But that does not imply that the students enrolled will get quality education.Infact the instructers could be pre-occupied with their own research work and may neglect to give proper education to the students.So just the fact that the instructors have published papers or are nobel prize candidates does not conclusively prove that the university of claria is the best of its kind.Also the fact that some of the faculty members teach in other countries regularly only implies that some of the best staff members are not regularly available in the University of claria.Effectively this could be considered a drawback rather than an advantage.
Also even if it is accepted that the instructors' reputation is directly related to the quality of education in the university,the author has failed to mention the proportion of reputed instructors.The author's ambiguous phrases like 'several faculty members','many of the faculty' dont precisely quantify the number of reputed instructors.As terms such as several and many are relative.What if the university is small one with a few faculty members.Had the number of faculty members who are renowned for their research contrubution been mentioned it would have been more convincing.
Also the author speaks solely in terms of the achievements of the university of claria without comparing with other universities .There might be other bigger universities whose staff also have equal or better credentials.A larger proportion of the staff in those universities may be renowned for their research work.So it is not entirely convincing when the author asserts that Claria is the best university without showing how it differs from other universities.Had the author given more information about the ranking of Claria among the universities,comparative data about the achievement of staff of the various universities,it would have been more acceptable that claria is indeed the best choice for quality education.
Also the author's statement that 75% of the students find employment after graduating is rather vague.The author must have given more information about the kind of employments the students get.Whether they get employment in a firm relevant to their field of education,whether they get employment in a reputed firm,etc.Just that 75% of the students got employment is not encouraging without knowing specific details about the type of employment.If another university A's statistics shows that only 50% of its students got employed but those who were employed were absorbed into the best companies(unlike claria) in the respective fields,then chances are prospective students may find University A a better choice than Claria.
In sum ,if the author had given more information about the proportion of reputed faculty members,comparative reputation of university of claria and also the kind of employment ,etc his argument that Claria is the best choice for quality education would have been more convincing
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