My Debate Script: This House Would Require Hgh School Students to Take Classes in Fine Art and Music

The famous artist Picasso once said, 'children are all artist, but the problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up." As Picasso said, we are all inborn artists. But the society and education are making children less creative and more stressful. At school, they should memorize so many important and unimportant things. Their teachers and parents scold them everytime they get poor scores in exams. After school, most of them have to go to academies immediately and study like study machines. They can not even get enough time for self reflection. In the end, all the children who were creative artists in the past become ordinary people. These are the lives of ordinary children and young adults. Now, for the development of our country, we should make some changes to their lives.

Meanwhile, I'm Eujin Jo, the Prime Minister. The topic for today's debate is that "this house would require high school students to take classes in fine art and music" and our team strongly support the topic. That is because, first, art and music class will make students creative. Second, high school students can release stress through classes. Also, the classes will reduce school bullying. Today, as the Prime Minister, I will give the split, define the terms and state our team's three arguments. And the Deputy Prime Minister and our Whip will rebut the points of the side opposition, state our team's last arguments and tell you the reason why our team definately win the debate.

I'd like to define terms first. We, the government side, define the term 'high school students' to mean 'all the Korean adolescents who are attending high school'. Also, we define the term 'fine art and music class' to mean 'the classes where students draw pictures, play instruments or sing songs.

I'm gonna state our team's arguments from now on. Firstly, art and music class will make students creative. Creativity is something inside our mind. We can grow our creativity. We can be creative like famous inventors and scientists if we know the way to make it grow. Then what can we do to improve our creativity? As many scientists and artists proved, one of the best way to grow our creativity is to draw pictures or play instruments. And that is what we ususally do in art and music class.

Secondly, high school students can release stress through taking art and music classes. They are very stressful because of pressure from study, conflicts with their parents and so on. In fact, so many high school students commit suicide every year. Thus, they need to do something to release stress. While drawing pictures or playing instruments, they will find peace of mind.

El Sistema

Moreover, art and music class will reduce school bullying. El Sistema is an orchestra found by an economist a few decades ago. It is a sort of art class for poor and troublesome children. The children and adolescents who were bullies or gangs before became happier and found that they could do something more productive and informative instead of blackmailing weak children and using slangs. As the result, bullying reduced in the town. Like the town out of which the economist made El Sistema, many students are suffering from school bullying these days in Korea. Reinforcing art and mucic education will be the solution to the problem.

There is something that is more important than math or English. It is 'happiness'. Happiness is something we need to find out by ourselves. And our team strongly believe that music and art class can make high school students happier.