Debating is a well structured education-orientated activity. It features two or four teams of an equal number of members arguing in favour or against different propositions that stir up controversy and disagreements even between genuinely well-intended individuals.
The for and against approach enables debaters to be able to judge a controversial situation clearly and logically and also encourages them to weed out prejudice.
The propositions in question are chosen from a various number of domains, and most have nothing in common, save that they are controversial and that they can be logically argued for as well as against. Debating has no real intention of trying to determine the absolute truth value of the proposition in question. On the contrary, the main goal of debating is not directly concerned with the proposition in question at all, it is the ability to argument coherently and to communicate in public that serves as the ultimate end of any debate. Hence, any debate, as an educational activity, aims at enhancing exactly those abilities.
