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A Survey Of Speech Education In The High Schools Of California, Marian Helen Mellgren
A Survey Of Speech Education In The High Schools Of California, Marian Helen Mellgren
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Perhaps the first justification for the inclusion of speech in today’s curriculum is the very evident predominance of oral communication in our lives. Painter has pointed out that “oral communication is the vehicle for 90 percent of the exchange of ideas.”
A second justification for the belief that speech education is important today lies in the fact that our country is a democracy. Democracy is essentially a government by talk, a government in which problems are not settled by force, but in which problems are talked out of existence or into solution. Long ago Aristotle identified communication with political freedom …