Chapter 18

After the bug incident there is an assembly, and James talks in it. James announces to the school that there is now a debating team at school for this school has not had one. Also James believes that there are many people who could use skills learned in debating. James makes his announcement catch more peoples attention by quoting Shakespeare. James quotes Shakespeare in Hamlet

"What is a man,

If the chief good and market of his time

Be but to sleep and feed? A beast , no more!"...

"He that made us with such large discourse,

gave us not that capability and godlike reason

to fust in us unused..." (Gerard Bauer 9)

James says that a debate club is needed for reason is what separates man from animals and we must use reasoning to make decisions knowing the consequences and the benefits.