POWER OF SPEECH
NEGLECTED FORCE PROFESSOR GIVES ADVICE “We have very few good public speakers in New Zealand, and purely because of carelessness,” said Professor Maxwell Walker in an address on “Public Speaking,” which he gave at the Auckland. Advertising Club’s luncheon to-day. He said public speaking was part of j general speech, and general speech I was part of education. The purpose of | speech was to express thought, and | thought had been described as the ! greatest miracle of civilisation. The j medium of thought expression was I therefore worthy of study. The parson, politician, teacher and lawyer paid little attention to speech, and yet its study should be part of the training for their professions. “If I had my way,” he said, “there would be professors of elocution at each of the four New Zealand universities, and I would compel every schoolteacher to go to his lectures. If this were done, in 25 years we would have speech in New Zealand that the country could rejoice over.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 438, 21 August 1928, Page 13
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