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Debate Classes in Kanpur

Learning to argue well, and to be argued with

Debate is the one speaking skill where somebody is actively trying to take apart what your child just said. That changes how you prepare: a case has to survive contact, not merely sound good in a mirror. Children here learn to build an argument, anticipate the reply, and answer it while still standing up.

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Why families choose us

Learning to argue well, and to be argued with

In public speaking your child controls the content. In elocution they deliver someone else’s piece beautifully. Neither prepares them for the moment an opponent finds the hole in their reasoning thirty seconds after they sit down. Debate is where a child learns that being contradicted is not an attack, and that changing your mind in public is a strength.

Kanpur sits on the Ganga in a part of Uttar Pradesh where the Ramcharitmanas is recited at home more often than any Sanskrit text. Children here frequently know chaupais by heart already, and the Ramayana course meets them where they are rather than starting from the beginning.

Case construction — claim, reason, evidence, impact

Notes taken while listening, the skill most beginners simply lack

Both sides of every motion argued, so positions are reasoned not inherited

Timed speeches, so structure has to hold under a clock

Timings

Batch timings for Kanpur

Live classes on IST, scheduled around your week rather than ours.

IST batches: weekday 5:30 to 8:00 PM and weekend mornings. Northern winter timings push school later in December and January, and the later evening slots suit Kanpur better then.

Classes are online, from Bengaluru, with mentors explaining in Hindi as freely as in English.

What your child gains

What your child walks away able to do

A four-minute case delivered from notes rather than memory

The ability to rebut an argument heard for the first time

Reasoning that separates a claim from the evidence for it

The curriculum

Inside the debate classes curriculum

A few of the modules a year of debate classes covers. The full sequence is on the class page.

  1. 01What Makes an Argument
  2. 02Building a Case
  3. 03Listening to Rebut
  4. 04Points of Information
Getting started is easy

Three simple steps to begin

1. Tell us about your child

Call or WhatsApp us and say where your child is starting from. For debate classes that matters — the mentor pitches the first class to what they can already do.

2. Personal guidance from a mentor

A real, live class, not a sales call. The mentor works with your child for the full session and then tells you honestly whether this is the right class of ours for them.

3. Pick a slot that survives the school week

We place your child in a batch built for IST. IST batches: weekday 5:30 to 8:00 PM and weekend mornings.

“My daughter used to freeze on stage. After a few months of public speaking classes, she confidently delivered a speech at her school assembly. The mentors are patient and truly gifted.”
Suresh IyerBengaluru, IndiaParent of Meghna, 12
Questions

Debate Classes in Kanpur, FAQs

Usually the opposite. Debate gives a shy child a structure and a prepared case to stand behind, which is far easier than free speaking. We start them on prepared speeches and bring them into live rebuttal only once they ask to.

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