Do
you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should give the same amount of money to their students’
sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Use specific
reasons and examples to support your
opinion.
Some people claim that universities should
give the same sum of money to their students' sports activities as to their university libraries. They point
out that universities should attract more students to exercise, because a
healthy body can make a student bear the heavy studies. On the other hand, most
people, like me, strongly disagree with it. In the following paragraphs, I will
explain some main reasons. In the first place, an obvious advantage to spend
more money on libraries is that enormous libraries can help us save a huge
amount of money, paper resource and the time to seek study materials from a far
bookstore. As we all known, the prices of books are more expensive than before,
while we have to read more books to catch up with the high-tech era. Moreover,
now many students are still too poor to go to school, therefore libraries
become the cheapest places to provide useful knowledge for them. Just imagine
these poor persons can enjoy a varieties of books in a comfortable environment
with enough light and a quiet study atmosphere. How happy they are! Secondly,
another reason why I disagree is that the chief goal of university education is
to teach students working skills. Obviously, libraries provide more useful
information to students than sports activities do. For example, more and more
libraries are also equipped with computers which can encourage students to surf
the Net to widen their horizons. Without the Internet, there will be less chances
to make friend with the foreigners and catch the latest worldwide information.
On the contrary, sports activities are just limited in a small area and a few
of friends in some degree. However, I do not deny that sports activities can
provide chances to develop some good characteristics, such as cooperation. But
frankly speaking, it is a bit wasteful to spend too much money on sports
activities, when we can attain enough free exercises, such as running, which
gain the same advantages as well. Furthermore, students are easily obsessed by
the activities and overlook their studies. For instant, I once used so much
study time to play basketball that I failed to go up to the next grade.
Although I earned some awards of basketball matches at that time, I feel very
regret. In fact, numerous students have the similar stories because of the
attraction of the sports activities. In conclusion, I firmly disagree with the
idea that universities should give the same sum of money to their students'
sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Nevertheless we
are sure that both universities libraries and proper sports activities are
valuable. Anyway, to avoid students playing overtime and ignoring their
homework should be concerned. Is it wise to spend more money on universities
libraries?
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