Today as I rode in the car with my husband we created a tangent about speaking. I think I was commenting on an annoying tone in a reporters voice. Anyway. We were discussing public speaking and the lack of education in the talent. Yes, I feel it is a talent and not a skill. I watch public figures, broadcasters and the like and wonder who will come next. I have heard many students speaking and was ashamed and embarssed at the fact they were speaking properly.
I did not have a single course in High School that touched on any form of public speaking. That is not to say I never presented items, paper and ideas but it means I was never coached or given instructions on a successful speech. It was not until I went to college that I was introduce to the art oration. I was a novice and scared at the feedback given to me by my fellow students and teachers. Yet, through the many speeches I gave to gain my public speaking compentency, I found it most enjoyable to suceed in be seen as an intelligent person who was accomplished. Sadly my school did away with thier compentcy program. I hope that new students are still given the same instructions in speaking. Some of you are now thinking "well you were media studies, of course you had public speaking". The majority of my public speaking was finished before I settled into my Media Studies coursework.
I just really wish that this aspect of education was not so over looked. It is a valueable and highly marketable skill to have in our job market today (as is civility and politness).
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sorry this blog is late. Work life has consumed my mind and I have thought of little else the past 2 weeks.
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