Excerpt from The Principles of Oral English
Teachers of oral English are, as a rule, pleased or displeased with the rendition of a sentence, a declamation, an oration or a reading according as it pleases or displeases their taste; and this only because taste has been, thus far, the only measure available for the guidance of the teacher or the instruction of a pupil. Taste alone and in itself, however, can no more afford a foundation for a standard of oral English than it can for music. The need in grammar school, high school and college is for an exposition of the subject that shall fix a standard which one who is familiar with the subject of grammar cannot fail to understand and apply. The laws of grammar are established, and its rules, if applied to sentences, cannot fail to develop in speaker or reader the ability to express intelligently the thoughts which they contain.
If a student thoroughly understands the thought content of a sentence and the emotion which accompanies it, he will express it in exactly the manner which the rules set forth in this book indicate; and if he masters these rules and their application, he can give an accurate and just reason for his method of expression.
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