Level 1 Debate Topics
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Any 2 sports or sports
categories: examples-
Basketball V Soccer; Indoor V Outdoor sports; Team sports V Individual sports
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Any 2 activities:
Examples - Singing V Dancing, Art V Music
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Any 2 Food items: Examples - Chocolates V Lollipops, Ice Cream
V Soda, Tea V Coffee.
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Any 2 careers: Examples-
Doctor V Lawyer
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Any 2 places/destinations:
Example – Hawaii V Disneyland, Going to Beach V Movie
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Any 2 personalities:
Example- singers, basketball players, authors, etc.
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Any 2 movies/books
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Dogs make better pets than Cats.
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Girls are well behaved at schools than boys.
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Trains V Airplanes
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Flip Flops V Sneakers
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Level 2 topics
- Carpooling helps decrease traffic congestion.
- Traditional schooling is required for overall development. (versus Homeschooling)
- Children should be paid to do household chores.
- School uniforms should be mandatory till high school.
- Capital Punishment should be abolished.
- Social Networking benefits our society
- Private Schools V Public Schools
- What is the right age to start boarding schools?
- School Exams are needed to measure students’ learning and teachers’ effectiveness
- Retaining students benefits their overall performance.
- Should physicians use email to communicate with their patients?
- Should schools assign homework during summer holidays?
- Regular cars are safer than driver less cars (Google auto cars)?
Level 3 Debate Topics
- What’s an A worth? Should parents pay their children for doing well in academics? Does it motivate them or create frustration?
- Right to choose single sex education.
- Should cities ban plastic bags?
- Are we spending too much taxpayers money into solar projects?
- Should the entrepreneur explore multiple ideas in parallel or focus on one?
- Gun control
- Does the world need nuclear energy?
- Does telecommuting work?
- Is cash on its way out?
- Debate that spans global boundaries from Mumbai, India to New York USA: What are the limits of street vendors?
- Should Charities operate the same way as other for profit businesses operate? Will the needy suffer more or less if philanthropies have to provide the P&L statements and other accounting?
- One of the oldest and the ongoing debate....What plays more significant role in one's development - Nature Vs Nurture. An interesting research about Identical twins, who share all the same genes, adds arguments to the why we are the way we are.
- Working in Private Sector Vs. Public Sector. Data shows that Government employees work less than their private counterparts. If public sector employees just worked as many hours as their private counterparts, govt. could save upto $100 Billion in annual labor costs!!!... who is struggling to balance the budget :-)
- A smart investor would skip the MBA
- Can Entrepreneurship be taught? Is this one of the skill that you have to learn by doing it, the best teacher is your own experience, or can it be taught via classes and books?
- Is Golf a sport or is it a game?
- Are smartphones making us productive?