WHEN THE Chinese government first sent students to America in the late 19th century, it could not decide whether their goal should be to acquire specific technical knowledge or to absorb new ways of ...

One side for an argument or motion, and one side against – the basics for any debate. In Hong Kong, many students will take debating classes, either as a hobby, or as something much more serious.

Daniel A. DeBois ’18 and Archie J.W. Hall ’20 defeated hundreds of opponents to win the 2018 World Universities Debating Championship last week, becoming the third Harvard team to take first prize in ...

Picture this: you’re a student at a Chinese Medium Instruction (CMI) school. You like the challenges of learning and using English. You’ve been reading articles about debating in Young Post, and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Back in 1992, my school friend Daniel Saxby and I stood in London in front of an audience of worthies and a panel of ...

October 11-12: We went to Harvard for APDA motions with 7 Bates teams and a hybrid team. Manav and his Hybrid Yuki made it to Partial Double Octos. Congrats! The Brooks Quimby Debate Council is the ...

A team of five high-schoolers who represented India at the World Schools Debating Championship brought laurels to the country with their skilled argumentation and eloquence. HYDERABAD: Unlocking their ...

The culture of debating has an august pedigree, stretching back to ancient Greece and India and perhaps reaching its height during the Age of Enlightenment in both England and what was to become the ...

It “once was the domain of the nerd” but now students are signing up for their futures. Meet 20 of the SA’s brightest and most argumentative students. There were about 1400 students from 62 schools ...