Articulate Speech

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The ability to articulate is a very important skill that is undervalued in today’s society especially by young people today. By reading Northrope Frye’s article “Don’t you think it’s time to start thinking?” we learn that education plays an important role in developing our ability to articulate. With the ability to articulate, we then can begin to remove the dangers and misconceptions in society, therefore creating a safer place to live.
Critical thinking and articulate speech is not valued in today’s society because teenagers are spoon fed today. We have media that takes away our ability to express ourselves and instead replaces it with meaningless slang. We have parents and other leaders in daily life that make their views very precise that …show more content…

By being educated, it makes people motivated to question what we read or hear. In society inarticulateness exists in many ways. If we have the education to question what we do not understand, we can identify inarticulateness and understand what is being covered up behind the simple play on words. Frye starts “it is not until we relies these things conceal meanings, rather than reveal it, that we can begin to develop our own powers of articulateness.” (Frye). Frye is referring to the fast “clichés and prejudices” (Frye) that we hear in society, when really, they are a mask to conceal the hidden problems behind them. Education makes us understand the meanings that are being covered up and it gives us a chance to remove the strain it is making on society. Education helps up develop our own powers of articulateness to defy what is being told to us and create a vastly different …show more content…

Frye states “use only stereotyped readymade phrases to blend in with the mass” (Frye). He also mentions in the article that often, to maintain power, or have greater power, people use words that are inarticulate and unintelligent, due to the fact that no one understands, therefore no one says a word. The dangers in society arise when someone steps up to the stand to rebel against what is being said. When people refuse to obey, others may get suspicious. Therefore because of the lack of articulate skills, no one bothers to rebel in fear that dangers await them if they

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