Live Questions for Debate: For the Schools of California (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Live Questions for Debate: For the Schools of California

The greatest profit from debate is to be gained only when the subjects are adapted to the age and grade of intelligence of the participants. I have, therefore, arranged the questions by grades, beginning with extremely simple ones in the sixth year. Some attempt has also been made to arrange the questions in each year in the order of difficulty of making preparation - a difficulty due either to the depth of the question or to the scarcity of sources of information. Some of the questions in the earlier grades are not in the strictest sense debatable. But two good habits will be formed by the pupil - first, of controlling himself before an audience; second, of marshalling his facts and figures on one side of a question.

The teacher, knowing her pupils, is of course the safest guide in assigning questions. Not all children in the sixth grade could debate even the simple questions I have proposed for that year. Grading differs somewhat in different communities.

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