Lectures, learning, leadership, LOs LO19767

Richard Charles Holloway (learnshops@thresholds.com)
Sun, 08 Nov 1998 20:50:19 -0800

Replying to LO19763 --

hi, Steve...

I, for one, think that sermons and lectures are and will probably always
be a valid form of communication. Some of the most wonderful words ever
uttered were presented as a sermon, or address or lecture (The Sermon on
the Mount; King's "I have a dream" speech; Lincoln's Gettysburg Address;
the lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson -- just to name a few examples).

However, the person delivering the lecture or sermon must be competent and
inspiring. How many sermonizers and lecturers are not? Why should people
listen to a sermon or lecture when they really wanted discourse?

I guess, in my own clumsy way, I'm just saying that "unto everything there
is a season" and a intuitive and sensitive teacher like yourself probably
knows when to preach or lecture...and when to facilitate. I just wish
that all professors, teachers, preachers and so forth could improve their
competency and their sensitivity to their audience.

regards!

-- 
"The mystery, the essence of all life is not separate from the silent openness
of simple listening." -Toni Parker


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