Excerpt from Joining in Public Discussion, a Study of Effective Speechmaking: For Members of Labor Unions, Conferences, Forums, and Other Discussion Groups
Such an aim for those who join in public discus sion will perhaps be questioned. Some may ask whether ideally an organized group should not have its thinking done individually by its ablest minds beforehand, and devote its meetings to the business of getting the thought of its leaders indorsed by the will of all. Thinlfing, one would suppose, calls for both the expert mind and a condition of undis turbed concentration, - and concentration upon a problem seems hardly the characteristic attitude of a meeting. Its deliberations, indeed, are subj ect to cer tain gusts of impulse that we distrust as crowd psychology Why not aim, then, to develop the dis cussion-group simply as a will-organization in which the best thought-leadership shall prevail?
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