Andrew Thomas Weaver

Current theory and research in motivation

CURRENT THEORY AND RESEARCH IN MOTIVATION, A SYMPOSIUM (Volume I). Edited by Marshall R. Jones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1953; pp. 194. Paper

Chapter 1: What Speech Can Contribute to High School Education

2.00. NEBRASKA SYMPOSIUM ON MOTIVATION (Volume II). Edited by Marshall R. Jones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1954; pp. 322. Paper

Seventeen who made history—the founders of the association

3.00. NEBRASKA SYMPOSIUM ON MOTIVATION (Volume III). Edited by Marshall R. Jones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1955; pp. 274. Paper

Experimental studies in vocal expression

3.00. (Reviewed by William S. Howell, QJS, XLII [April, 1956], pp. 205–206.) NEBRASKA SYMPOSIUM ON MOTIVATION (Volume IV). Edited by Marshall R. Jones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1956; pp. 311. Paper

Rhetoric and general education: A symposium continued

3.00. NEBRASKA SYMPOSIUM ON MOTIVATION (Volume V). Edited by Marshall R. Jones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1957; pp. 430. Paper

The case for speech

3.00. NEBRASKA SYMPOSIUM ON MOTIVATION (Volume VI). Edited by Marshall R. Jones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1958; pp. 278. Paper

The new better speech

3.00. MOTIVATION, A SYSTEMATIC REINTER‐PRETATION. By Dalbir Bindra. New York: Rona...

Charles Henry Woolbert

A proper speech program in high school is designed to make all boys and ~A girls more effective when they talk. Its primary purpose, therefore, is not to turn out actors and actresses, platform readers, or public speakers; it is rather to help high-school students to participate in social and business conversation, to present skillfully their qualifications when applying for jobs, to speak effectively in buying and selling, to develop skill in reading for the information and pleasure of themselves and others, and to discuss intelligently vital community issues. This functional emphasis has always been the motivating factor in worthwhile speech training. Thousands of years before there was any English language, speech was considered an important educational discipline in the cultural centers of the world. In the 12th Egyptian dynasty (3000 B. C.)