How About Just Teaching Debate? – In The Bin: The Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Debate Podcast
Instead of saying debate and argument are failures of human communication, how about just trying to teach people how to debate well?In this episode I take on the traitorous email I got from C-SPAN and critique the mission and perspective of Braver Angels. These are two examples of the trend of excommunicating debate from human communication instead of addressing the need for better and increased debate education.
This special late night post is to let you know that In the Bin is back in regular production. This was a wonderful conversation between Matt and I about the issues facing debate and facing the university today. We discuss the role of debate in the classroom and the promise of creating a center for debate, an “advocacy center” which would be somewhat similar to a writing center.
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