TOEFL® essay: Universities should give the same amount of money to their students

[Quan11287]

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.

Just as study, sports are also very important to students. Therefore, I think that universities should invest in their students’ sports activities with the same amount of money given to their libraries.

Firstly, universities are not place for study only. Universities are places where students make preparation for their future. Thus, students should be given chances to practice necessary skills for their career such as interpersonal, problem solving and so on. Solely studying in class-rooms or libraries can’t bring about what they will need. However, sports activities can. Playing a sport or participating in holding a sport event provides you with opportunities to learn how to work in a team, how to deal with some certain cases, how to arrange your work systematically among others. Acquiring knowledge is important but obtaining essential skills for life is important, too. Therefore, pouring a due amount of money into sports activities is a must in universities.

Secondly, for young students, health is crucial. You could focus on studying only when you are well both mentally and physically. Few exercise, especially when you are young, leads to health deterioration and makes you vulnerable to diseases. Besides, it results in weak concentration capabilities. How can you work effectively in academic areas with such a weak mind and body ? Clearly, sports activities play an important role in effectiveness of students’ study and they should be considered on par with study ones.

Finally, sports activities help to create an exciting environment in universities. Shortage of activities of that kind would result in a sluggish atmosphere on campus. Do you want to live in a place where everyone always silently focus on their books like wraiths ? In contrast, an active and exciting atmosphere which sports activities bring about could help you exhale pressure and escape from headaches for a while. Hence, it lead to a fiery lifestyle in universities where every student lives dynamically.

All in all, from the above facts, the important role of sports activities on campus has clearly emerged. Undoubtedly, there’s no reason not to invest a comparable amount of money into them.

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[Alan]

Just as study, sports are also very important to students. Therefore, I think that universities should invest in their students’ sports activities with the same amount of money given to their libraries.

Firstly, universities are not THE place for study only. Universities are places where students make preparation for their future. Thus, students should be given chances to practice necessary skills for their career such as interpersonal, problem solving and so on. SIMPLY studying in class-rooms or libraries can’t bring about what they will need. However, sports activities can. Playing a sport or participating in holding a sportING event provides you with opportunities to learn how to work in a team, how to deal with some certain cases, how to arrange your work systematically among others. Acquiring knowledge is important but obtaining essential skills for life is important, too. Therefore, pouring a PROPER amount of money into sports activities is a must in universities.

Secondly, for young students, health is crucial. You CAN focus on studying only when you are well both mentally and physically. LITTLE exercise, especially when you are young, leads to health deterioration and makes you vulnerable to diseases. Besides, it results in weak concentration capabilities. How can you work effectively in academic areas with such a weak mind and body ? Clearly, sports activities play an important role in THE effectiveness of students’ study and they should be considered AS on A par with study .

Finally, sports activities help to create an exciting environment in universities. Shortage of activities of that kind would result in a sluggish atmosphere on campus. Do you want to live in a place where everyone always silently focusES on their books like wraiths ? In contrast, an active and exciting atmosphere which sports activities bring about could help you REMOVE pressure and escape from headaches for a while. Hence, it lead to a fiery lifestyle in universities where every student lives dynamically.

All in all, from the above facts, the important role of sports activities on campus has clearly emerged. Undoubtedly, there’s no reason not to invest a comparable amount of money into them.

Alan
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[Chen]

I disagree that universities give the same amount of money to their students` sport activities as university libraries. The most important reason is, most of time, the money of sport activities is for some of the students who are good at sports. In contrary, the university library is for all the students. If you are the students in that college, you can use any sources providing from it, so the library can benefit for more students than sport activities.
Even if the sport activity is necessary for universities, I think the library plays the more important role than it. The information is plentiful in the library, and such information is so useful and necessary especially for students. They often use them to do their report, their homework and also can learn a lot of knowledge from it.
Finally, to keep a nice library needs a lot of money, and money is always insufficient in universities. However, it is so indispensible, to provide a wonderful place to learn, it should have enough money to keep it. It is not mean that other activities need to be canceled, after all, the activities like sports are also important. But according to opinions above, the universities should use more money to library than sport activities.