https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/02/15/larry-magid-high-school-students-debate-tech-issues/

I had 20 years of schooling with classes in lots of subjects, but the two most important ones I took were junior high school typing and high school forensics. That typing class not only taught me the skills I needed to use a typewriter in high school, college and graduate school, but gave me a big head start when it came to using computer keyboards. Unfortunately, it didn’t prepare me to type on phone screens, which I still struggle with.

I have an even more special place in my heart for what I learned in that forensics class and the various speech and debate tournaments I entered in high school. That experience gave me the confidence I sorely needed at the time as well as the research, critical thinking and speaking skills that have been extremely handy during my career. It literally changed my life.