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Debate Matters is training young minds for an ever-increasing complex and unpredictable world.

We offer private tutoring, classes, seminars, and custom-designed debate education for individuals and debate teams from some of this century’s most successful and trusted debaters and coaches.

  • "Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don't learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans." - Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago

  • "Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you." - Christopher Hitchens, public intellectual and author of Letters to a Young Contrarian

  • "Debate is the jewel in the crown of analytic thinking." - Michael Stipe, REM

  • "Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness." - Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins

  • "Once my feet got wet, I was gone on debating.  Whichever side of the selected subject was assigned to me, I’d track down and study everything I could find on it.  I’d put myself in my opponents’ place, and decide how I’d try to win if I had the other side:  I’d figure a way to knock down all those points.” - Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

  • "Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel." Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow, Broadcast Pioneer, Radio Host, TV Presenter

  • "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - Socrates

  • "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." - Joseph Joubert, French Moralist & Essayist

  • "In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues." - Joseph Stiglitz, Winner, Nobel Prize in Economic Science

  • "That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting." - Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, historian, actor, and presenter

  • "Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate." - Hubert H. Humphrey, former Senator VP of the United States from the great state of Minnesota

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