Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

In Europe, the most popular high school and university debate format is British Parliamentary in which spreading is not popular because you only have 15 minutes to prepare and weakly justified arguments don't require responses.

https://youtu.be/XyIK_Cg_8jc?t=327

British culture certainly has plenty of ivory tower elitism, yet has passed by this. I don't think it's a special revolutionary pedagogy, just a different interpretation of how to deal with subjectivity in debate.



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: