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Shimla: The final and semi-final debates during the 15th Revd. Dr. Samuel Slater Memorial Invitational Inter-School English Debates will be held on May 1 at Bishop Cotton School. Shimla. The chief guest for the event will be Manisha Nanda, principal secretary, tourism, language, art and culture, Himachal Pradesh. The pre-quarter final debates (24 debates) were held on April 28 and 29, while the four quarter-final debates were held today.
15 schools are participating in the debates this year. These are: Auckland House School, Shimla; Cathedral & John Connon School, Mumbai; Dubai Modern High School, Dubai; La Martiniere, Boys’, Kolkata; La Martiniere, Girls’, Kolkata; La Martiniere Girls College, Lucknow; Loreto House, Kolkata; Mayo College for Girls’; The Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun; St. James School, Kolkata; The Assam Valley School, Assam; The Doon School, Dehradun; The Sagar School; The Sri Ram School, Gurgaon and Vasant Valley School, New Delhi. Teams from theses schools are speaking on 24 varied topics, ranging from ‘A foetus is not a person’, ‘Academic qualification ensures success in life’, ‘All limits on immigration should be abolished’, ‘All religious involvement in schools should be banned’, and ‘Cheerleaders should be banned from professional sporting events’.
The debates were started under the headmastership of Kabir K. Mustafi in 1996 in honour of Revd. Samuel Slater, the first headmaster of Bishop Cotton School.
All limits on immigration should be abolished’, ‘All religious involvement in schools should be banned’. These two topics will be interesting to hear and who the f*#$k was Dr Samuel.
All limits on immigration should be abolished’, ‘All religious involvement in schools should be banned’. These two topics will be interesting to hear and who the f*#$k was Dr Samuel.
Certainly, all sort of topics should be debated; including the anti-establishment ones. The host school
is rooted deeply in it's traditions and nothing would be more interesting than to see how it deals with
daring issues which may deconstructs the values on which these colonial schools are found. Besides,
Dr Stater himself would have encouraged, as would Mr Mustafi, the opening up of the forum to such
issues that would threaten to de-center that whole belief system drawn from the Enlightenment to the
Victorian world-view.
It only matter, as far as "Slaters" go, that the spirit of open mindedness and liberal thought seeps into the
general consciousness.
Dr Samuel Slater was the first Headmaster of Bishop Cotton School, Shimla – for all those who know not
this yet.
Certainly, all sort of topics should be debated; including the anti-establishment ones. The host school
is rooted deeply in it's traditions and nothing would be more interesting than to see how it deals with
daring issues which may deconstructs the values on which these colonial schools are found. Besides,
Dr Stater himself would have encouraged, as would Mr Mustafi, the opening up of the forum to such
issues that would threaten to de-center that whole belief system drawn from the Enlightenment to the
Victorian world-view.
It only matter, as far as "Slaters" go, that the spirit of open mindedness and liberal thought seeps into the
general consciousness.
Dr Samuel Slater was the first Headmaster of Bishop Cotton School, Shimla – for all those who know not
this yet.
Rev. Samuel Slater was the 1st HM of BCS Shimla and details can be read at http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/our-heritage/bc…
Rev. Samuel Slater was the 1st HM of BCS Shimla and details can be read at http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/our-heritage/bc…
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