Topic:
Some people think that the university should not provide theoretical knowledge, but to give practical training. Do you agree or disagree? Use your own experience and knowledge to support your idea.
英语范文
Whether theory and practice are contradictory to each other has long since been a controversial issue and is still unresolved. Some people claim that university should not provide theoretical knowledge but to give practical training, which sounds unreasonable and even ridiculous to me. What my viewpoint towards this issue is that university should function as a comprehensive academic institution which can provide both theoretical knowledge and practical training.
At first, I would like to point out that university is an intermediate stage where the graduates from high school prepare themselves for their future in society. As we all know, high schools focus relatively more emphasis on elementary education, which means the teaching in high schools is based on theoretical knowledge instead of practical training. Provided the university only attaches importance to the practical training, how can the college students adjust themselves to society and make contributions later without learning about applying theory into practice?
Secondly, theoretical knowledge has settled foundation for practical training which serves as essentially as a cornerstone. The latter will not even be able to exist without the former one's guiding and directing. Take my own experience for example. When I was a freshman in university, I was offered a part-time job as a proofreader in a press. I accepted it without any hesitation considering it to be an extremely rare and valuable opportunity for practical training. Less than two weeks later I was dismissed by the chief editor who was mainly in charge of proofreading. The reason is simply that I was not qualified for the job due to lack of some correspondent theoretical knowledge.
Thirdly, theoretical knowledge itself derives from practice via a demanding and sophisticated course of refining and abstracting. To provide proper amount of theoretical knowledge can consequently save money as well as time which are supposed to be devoted to practical training.
In general, I stand my position that university ought not to replace theoretical knowledge teaching with practical training. Instead, we should attach the same importance to both aspects.
题目：
理论和实践在大学学习中是否矛盾？结合你的亲身经历谈谈你的观点是什么。
译文：
理论和实践是否矛盾一直是一个有争议的问题，这一问题尚未解决。一些人认为，大学不应该教理论知识而是让学生多去实践。我认为这种说法是不切实际的，甚至是荒谬的。对于这个问题，我的看法是，大学应该是一个既能够教授理论知识又能教授实践技能的机构。
首先我想提出的是：大学是为高中毕业生步入社会做打算的中间过渡阶段。众所周知，高中比较着重于基础教育而不是实践，假如大学生只重视实践，没有学会用理论知识去实践，大学生怎样能把自己融入社会呢？更谈不上为社会做贡献了。
第二，理论知识从本质上讲可作为基石为实践提供稳固的基础，没有前者的向导和指示，后者甚至不会存在。就拿我自己的经历作为例子来讲吧，在我上大一的时候，去了一家出版社做兼职，当一名校对员。我毫不犹豫地接受了这项工作，因为考虑到这是一个非常难得而又有价值的社会实践。但不到两周，我被校对的主管解雇了，原因就是我没有通信方面的理论知识，也就没有资格去做这项工作。
第三，理论知识本来就源自于不断的实践，是经过复杂、严格的提炼和总结获得的，教授适量的理论知识可以为学生节省金钱和时间投入到实践中。
总之，我的观点是大学不应该用理论知识来替代实践，而要同等重视这两方面。