The importance of pondering time and listening for communication skills By MARTIN REZNY As I’m nearing my fourteenth year in competitive debating, now a judge and trainer of speakers, aspiring speakers seem to me to be losing their way, including those who are teaching them…

Instead of learning to become mediocre By MARTIN REZNY Those of you who have been reading my articles for a long time may already know that I’m not exactly a fan of the standard education model. I could go again over the main reasons, like what it does to limit…

Part one of how building my own website is taking me back, I guess By MARTIN REZNY To give you some context, I don’t have the scientific data for that, but the Czech Republic might be the world capital of community theater. You pretty much can’t throw a cat around…

And why not that many do By MARTIN REZNY As someone who started debating more than a decade ago and now is an executive of an international debating society, I must completely agree with all points laid out by the author of the article. He clearly speaks from direct experience…

How to deal with the fallacy of false dichotomy and other manipulative framing By MARTIN REZNY Let’s start with a brain teaser. Which is true? Saying that teaching history through the lenses of theories like Marxism, feminism, or postcolonialism is fully responsible for today’s divisive public discourse, or saying that…