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When people graduate from a school or university, they always complain that they have learned much more academic knowledge instead of practical skills, so that they can not adapt themselves into the industrial conditions. Frankly, it's ture that school teach us less skills, but, on the contrary, the aim of a school or university is not to train a technology worker but a person with certain knowledge which could helps himself or herself to select his or her own future.
Academic knowledge is the foundation of thinking. When we are considering the world or faced a problem, we will try to think and find an approriate way. We cannot adjust our thinking to the real problem with a certain skill, because one skill is normally used for dealing with a particular kind of questions. Therefore, we need some foundation knowledge to decide which skill we shall use and modify the detail of this skill to solve the problem easily. Without academic knowledge, we will not know why the skill is that skill, we will not know why a skill could be used to solve a problem correctly but another wrongly.
It's the application methods not skills need to be taught at all. Definitely, academic knowledge is far way from the practical skills. That means, people used to know little about how to apply their knowledge to their works. So, maybe a school should teach more methods which will help in linking theories with practice. Skills are some processes which are formed during utilizing knowledge skilledly. So it's can not be taught.
People is used to grumble at school or university and complain that they can't learn some useful when they are students. However, the school or university taught them already. Acadamic knowledge is the universal truth which could be used in every context. What they must do is to adjust their known a little when they are faced some problems.
by J.H
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