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Debate club vs Chess Club - what’s better for kids?
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Debate clubs can develop one's ability to make a persuasive argument, but it hardly will play a very significant role on the ability to come up with a logical argument in the first place. Which is more important: the ability to make a logical argument, or the ability to make a persuasive argument? Both have their use, but the former obviously is more healthy for the nation, while the latter is more beneficial for the individual - at the expense of everyone affected by it.
As such, I vote for the chess club.
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Debate Club teaches you so much about social intelligence (including how to charm/ and impress judges while simultaneously disgusting and intimidating your opponent all the way back to the basics of working well with your team, building morale etc). It does it in a way no sport or other club can because it is so verbal and persuasive-based all the way through in every element of what the club is (persuading the school to even host the club etc).
Chess club teaches you the opposite. How to have raw tenacity in the face of introverted pricks who want nothing more than to play a boring game that they know more than you about and keep you as their slave. You can quit the club, run away, or you can stick it out get real grit and brutally push your IQ instead of EQ in a way that no other club will enable you to do.
I disliked the people at chess club, learned a lot from it. I liked the people at debate club, learned even more from it.
Debate club wins in my eyes but trust me, chess club (if your school has one) gives you a raw gangster grit and 'macho' intelligence that no other club can give you. It will make you a proper warrior, not nonsense like American Football club.
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I chose chess club because yes, while debating does teach kids how to provide valid, civil arguments, as well as teach them to do their own research, it doesn't teach them one of the major parts of debate. Logical thinking. Chess club teaches kids to look at the current situation and information they have, then use that knowledge to help them advance in their game. If you don't know how to use logical thinking, then your debates are bound to be biased and unreasonable at times, which just makes you look bad.
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