Excerpt from Fundamentals of Speaking: A Text Book of the Foundations of Speech, Public Address, Reading, and Acting Experience teaches that a certain word of caution is due to students who study the subject. Many young people have the idea that in the teaching of expression, speaking, and dramatic reading the student can absorb the ability to speak and read by merely listening to the teacher talk. A greater mistake can hardly be made. Public speaking and interpretation of literature can not be learned by simply harkening to the words of the teacher. The only possible chance the student has of getting any thing valuable out of this subject is found in the amount of work that he himself does in vocal practice and actual speaking. The only way to improve the voice is to use it, and the only way to learn to speak is to speak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.