Debate
GNS's Senior Campus is known for a large debate program, with one in seven students belonging to the Debate Club. The school occasionally sends debaters to the Worlds and regularly sends students to the Junior and Senior National debate tournaments and seminars. Last school year, for the first time in more than five years, the school sent three debaters to the Nationals: two Grade 9 debaters to the Junior Nationals in Montreal, and one Grade 12 debater to the Senior Nationals in Ontario. Glenlyon Norfolk debaters also regularly win tournaments both provincially and on Vancouver Island. They are the current Provincial Champions for Junior Class.
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Famous quotes containing the word debate:
“Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“A great deal of unnecessary worry is indulged in by theatregoers trying to understand what Bernard Shaw means. They are not satisfied to listen to a pleasantly written scene in which three or four clever people say clever things, but they need to purse their lips and scowl a little and debate as to whether Shaw meant the lines to be an attack on monogamy as an institution or a plea for manual training in the public school system.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Like man and wife who nightly keep
Inconsequent debate in sleep
As they dream side by side.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)