Date: Sunday May 17th 2015

Participants (from 8 countries):

Team A: (Yes) Marwa, Eshaal, Angel, Alama

Team B: (No) Amine, Lala, Kelly

Team C: (On the fence) Rick

Moderator: Johny

Host: Rick

Team A Summary:

Life experience as a subject in school would help you to prepare for the things after graduating (relationships, career decisions, life goals)
One way to approach this subject is to hire experts in this field
Helps people to mature, more aware
We need this subject to be taught in schools as there are many social and psychological problems in today’s world, and this would be helpful to deal with these issues
Relevancy to real life. Often the subjects taught in school may have very little relevance to actual life requirements and experiences
In some countries, where all the focus is put on academics, and passing exams, the young people are not prepared to deal with the real world once they leave school
Everyone needs guidance
This would provide a good opportunity to share life experiences with each other

Team B Summary:

Although it is important to know about others experiences, it would not be practical when the School has to a large number of subjects because it would be another burden for students and teachers and teacher should connect with students in a separate and different level such us offering social behavior instead
Learning this subject would be meaningful but not as a qualitative course
Experience is not something that you can learn from teacher, rather we should learn this things by better qualified people such as family and friends.
The better life experience teacher is our own experiences in most cases and it would work better than learning it from second hand
There is a big difference between life experience and the things that are already taught in schools: life experience is something can be learn only by living it and it cannot be a theoretical subject.
If it became a subject, it would no longer be interesting. People would just deal with their problems like robots
A subject is defined as 'a branch of knowledge studied or taught in a school, college, or university.". We can’t teach or study life in an academic way, life is a series of learning though we can have a this life experience as a program, seminar or an elective but not a subject
Life experience is an important point, and should be provided to young children or young adults but in a way that complements their existing studies, not replacing them
School should only be for giving facts to children and teenagers and letting them decide.

Team C Results/Summary:

Rick=B

Team B won the debate

This was based on several considerations:
- Life experience is important, but difficult to quantify in an academic environment
- Should complement existing courses, not replace them

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