Why Debate a Teenager?
April 23, 2016 at 5:22 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2016 at 5:30 am by Goosebump.
Edit Reason: better to spell it right then deal with the type
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I'm going off of the recent study:
Full Article: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=124119468
So is it worth it, or just try and trick them? AKA: bullshit and appeal to emotion, authority, straw-man them. basically use any dirty trick to get them to accept a previously reasoned point of view that they might or might not be able to reason out?
FOLLOW UP: Should 18 year-olds be able to vote?
FOLLOW UP FOLLOW UP: Is it right to teach any opinionated text post middle school after (in the best case) they've learned their letters and numbers?
Quote:That's because the nerve cells that connect teenagers' frontal lobes with the rest of their brains are sluggish. Teenagers don't have as much of the fatty coating called myelin, or "white matter," that adults have in this area.
Full Article: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=124119468
So is it worth it, or just try and trick them? AKA: bullshit and appeal to emotion, authority, straw-man them. basically use any dirty trick to get them to accept a previously reasoned point of view that they might or might not be able to reason out?
FOLLOW UP: Should 18 year-olds be able to vote?
FOLLOW UP FOLLOW UP: Is it right to teach any opinionated text post middle school after (in the best case) they've learned their letters and numbers?
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