News@Northwestern – NHSI Debate Program
Each year, high school debaters from across the nation are invited to spend a few summer weeks with each other on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. The students are known as “cherubs,” a name affectionately given to participants in the National High School Institute, the country’s oldest and largest university-based program for outstanding high school students. Follow the debate cherubs as they argue away their days.
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Perfectly …
Perfectly ridiculous!
Might be a thrill, …
Might be a thrill, but it’s not debate. It’s useless as a debating tool. To communicate one has to be able to be understood. This is just bull sh*t.
we most definately …
we most definately could.
FAIL, thats why …
FAIL, thats why there is Lincoln Duglas, or Extemp, or Student Congress or, other lesser important formes of Debate, Policy debate is about argumentation, speed, delivery, quickness on your feet, and provides a thrill unexperienced in other forms, I know, I have tried them,time flies while competing in a policy debate round, even though it takes up to 90 minutes.
same here.
same here.
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goin here this sunday
haha, they sound …
haha, they sound like the guy in the video if you search : “80s Micro Machines Commercial”
“i’ve learned so …
“i’ve learned so much….that i never i thought i would ever knew”
haha smart kids
This is so weird, …
This is so weird, did not interest me.
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If an English …
If an English speaker tries to communicate with a non-English speaker, he speaks slower and louder. No? Remember Demosthenes, the pebble mouthed orator? And Plato? If you have no argument, you have no point – no matter how fast you try to flim-flam it. Say it faster and it’s more true? Another failure of the American Educational System.
If you can learn to …
If you can learn to speak, hear, and recall point-by-point words spoken at an unreasonable speed, couldn’t you do the same at normal, sane speeds that much better?
Granted, this would would mean all if the person practicing lacked the logic and reasoning chops that a good debater needs, but it has be be of some use.
I agree with the loudness, though.You’re right on the mark there. LOL SPEAKING LOUD IS A GOOD HABIT AND MAKES YOU A BETTER DEBATER.
are these what you …
are these what you call masterdebaters?
i hope some of …
i hope some of these debaters can come humiliate ALL of these internet racists who have seemed to overpopulate youtube.
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This is awesome. …
This is awesome. Fast talking keeps you awake. I’m taking some critical thinking and business communication classes in college. I don’t think I could talk that fast and actually make a coherent argument, unless I was talking about something like you mentioned alternative energy. I just posted a new windmill design. Rant on.
Now that I can …
Now that I can agree with. I think there are other ways to get people to think fast other than making them talk like Alvin from the Chipmunks.
Chill. Hey. I was …
Chill. Hey. I was not being aggressive, and I’m sorry if I sounded aggressive.
Any ways, back to the debate about debate.
Because generally, a lot of the debates I take part in are in large rooms, speaking loudly is a must. The judges rate me up and down on it.
Speaking quickly does nothing–you’re right about that. But being able to speak at a normal pace while coming up with really good words is basically a result of practising fast speech (thus thinking fast) then toning it down a bit.
Why in God’s name …
Why in God’s name should I apologize, I have nothing to apologize for this program is absurd. I still stand by my comments. This program is “Retarded.” So unless someone wants to come up with a reasoned, logical, and intelligent response to why this is a good idea. I won’t apologize.
Speed isn’t the …
Speed isn’t the most important thing, and yeah a good arguement is a good arguement, but any sort of class that requires essays or something, it’s usually timed. And if you aren’t fast, you lose miserably.
Speed isn’t even concerned with this video much. Speed is merely a good habit and definitely helps in a lot of situations that include debate.
I have debated, and …
I have debated, and the most important part of reasoned and intellectual debate is not speed. It is reason, intelligence, and logic. Speed does nothing to increase any of those things. Don’t you ever attempt to edify me on the rules of debate.
Speaking loudly is only used when your arguments are off base anyway to get your opponent to shut up.
You are confusing practiced debate and what the above video shows. So please come back when you get a clue.
Listen here: if …
Listen here: if you’ve ever debated, one of the most important things in debate is word choice. Speaking words fast helps improve “fast” word choice, and speaking words loudly simply builds a good habit.
Argument construction and logic are important but being impressive is something a person must practice from the very beginning.
And, BTW, I am a debater so I would defend this activity.
And also, ALL past presidents have practiced debate, I believe, plus people who go on air practice it.
wow. this is …
wow. this is retarded.
still, i prefer my …
still, i prefer my lazyness