Defending the Field Trip
There is an old saying in China that knowledge comes from experience. Nowadays, students spend a lot of time concentrating on text books, listening to teachers in the classroom or watching documentaries to gain knowledge they need. Luckily, there are filed trips which help students to release their pressure, get more interested in study and understand theories better. In my opinion, the experience students learn from field trips is a lot worthier than the tuition fees our school pays for, thus field trips should definitely be defended.
To start with, field trips help student to release pressure and be willing to study. Students spend most of their times memorizing the theories and fighting with homework and tests. This makes students feel tired and bored about studying and even refuse to study. Here is an example of my friend. She used to be an extremely creative girl and was really good at biology. However, after weeks' studying, she started to become quiet and refused to share her creative ideas about study with me. Instead, she did not finish her homework on time anymore and got bad grades on tests. When I ask her why, she said that learning biology could not make her understand creatures at all. Things all changed when her teacher took the whole class to a field trip. They did not go far away but to a near pond to discover some organisms inside. After that, she told me she started to know the meaning of learning biology and was interested in it again. Field trips can trigger the interests of students in study and help them find the fun thing about knowledge.
Furthermore, field trips help students understand theories better. Text books and teachers always try to squeeze all the important knowledge into our brain. However, memorization is not permanent. Only if students understand the theories deeply by experience it, are they able to remember and use them in the future. For instance, I am really bad at history and always cannot remember the events that happened in the past. During the winter break, I went to a history museum and everything has changed. The exhibits on shown and the tour guide helped me build a time line in my mind which was extremely useful in my further study. Although it was not a field trip, it worked and made me understand the theories and knowledge better. Therefore, field trips must work a lot better since they are always related to our recent study.
In conclusion, field trips are meaningful study strategies which can help students on both mental health and school work. Although field trips may cost some money, they are important and the effects of field trips are significant. Field trips should never be canceled but been valued and increased.
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