Start teaching rhetoric in schools and universities again
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Reich heads a school of thought among policy analysts that proposes...what he calls 'the power of ideas.' Instead of relying exclusively on polling and marketing surveys, instead of balancing the pleading of special interest groups, Reich and his colleagues make the case for public deliberation in national decisions. 'Policy making should be more than, and different from, the discovery of what people want,' Reich says. 'It should entail the creation of contexts in which people can critically evaluate and revise what they believe.' But public deliberation works to foster changes in belief only when the persuaders on both sides subject themselves to opposing suasion, when the wooer is willing to be wooed. This active and passive art is not instinctive: it must be taught.
Start teaching rhetoric in schools and universities again
Start teaching rhetoric in schools and…
Start teaching rhetoric in schools and universities again
Reich heads a school of thought among policy analysts that proposes...what he calls 'the power of ideas.' Instead of relying exclusively on polling and marketing surveys, instead of balancing the pleading of special interest groups, Reich and his colleagues make the case for public deliberation in national decisions. 'Policy making should be more than, and different from, the discovery of what people want,' Reich says. 'It should entail the creation of contexts in which people can critically evaluate and revise what they believe.' But public deliberation works to foster changes in belief only when the persuaders on both sides subject themselves to opposing suasion, when the wooer is willing to be wooed. This active and passive art is not instinctive: it must be taught.