ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY TOPICS
EDUCATION
1. Boys and girls should attend separate schools.
2. Teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn.
3. Classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child’s success in
school.
4. Grades (marks) encourage students to learn.
5. Children should begin learning a foreign language as soon as they start school.
6. High schools should allow students to study the courses that students want to
study.
7. Universities should give the same amount of money to their students’ sports
activities as they give to their universities libraries.
8. With the help of technology, students nowadays can learn more information and
learn it more quickly.
9. All required university courses are boring.
10. Exams are not useful.
11. Public schools should require uniforms in order to benefit both the student and
the society as a whole.
12. There is nothing that young people can teach older people.
13. Reading fiction (such as novels and short stories) is more enjoyable that
watching movies.
FAMILY LIFE
14. A person’s childhood years (the time from birth to twelve years of age) are the
most important years of a person’s life.
15. Watching television is bad for children.
16. Parents are the best teachers.
17. Divorce is sometimes a solution to marital problems.
18. Women, not the government, have the right to make their own decisions about
abortion.
19. Television has destroyed communication among friends and family.
20. Games are as important for adults as they are for children.
21. Playing games teaches us about life.
TECHNOLOGY & PROGRESS
22. Technology has made the world a better place to live.
23. Modern technology is creating a single world culture.
