Edgar Dale quotes
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“There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.”
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“One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed....”
-- Edgar DaleSource : "Can you give the public what it wants?".
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“No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.”
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“There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.”
-- Edgar DaleSource : "Can you give the public what it wants?" by Edgar Dale, 1967.
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“No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out.”
-- Edgar DaleSource : "Can you give the public what it wants?: The need for better communications in editing, writing, broadcasting, advertising, public relations [and] teaching".
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“Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.”
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Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1985). “Science in the Making”, Praeger Pub Text
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“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”
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Source : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.67, U of Nebraska Press
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