Debate

During the semester, GTK members had the opportunity to participate in a series of debating, delivered by our alumni member Kende-Ferenc Pastor and Gáspár Incze. During the semester, they put the theoretical knowledge they had already acquired to good use, as GTK members have been debating in both English and Romanian this semester.

On 23 March, the GTK students participated in the first debate afternoon of the second semester, which, as in the first semester, was led by Kende-Ferenc Pastor and Gáspár Incze. The training was held in the GTK office, but unlike the first semester, this time the students had to debate in English and Romanian. The first half of the session focused on theory, while the second half of the debate focused on practice. The first “warm-up” debate was in English and ended with a peer evaluation. The first English-language debate focused on the following subject: “Friendship between men and women exists.”, while the second debate, in Romanian language, argued for the following thesis: “The increasing use of ChatGPT is endangering the intelligence level of university students.”

On 6 April, GTK students participated in the second session of the debate training, coordinated by Kende-Ferenc Pastor and Gáspár Incze. The debate was held in English and the topic was the following: „To eradicate poverty, a universal basic income should be introduced.” The students were given the opportunity to express their views on the subject by giving arguments for and against. The training was useful, as they not only had the opportunity to share their own ideas with the other members, but also to get to know other points of view.

On 11 May, GTK students participated in the third debate of the semester, coordinated by Kende-Ferenc Pastor. The debate was held in English and the topic was: „Nowadays, finding a job and achieving a comfortable living for newly graduated university students in Romania is more difficult than in the Western-European”. The students were given the opportunity to express their views on the topic by giving arguments for and against. The debate was significant, as it gave members a new perspective and allowed them to discuss a topic close to them and an important issue for the future.

On 25 May, GTK students participated in the fourth and last debate training session of the semester, led by Gáspár Incze and Kende-Ferenc Pastor. This time, the students debated on tax systems under the theme ‘The single rate tax is the fairest!’. The debaters argued using the British Parliamentary Debate format, which resulted in a meaningful exchange of views.

We would like to thank Gáspár and Kende for their time and for a meaningful training session!