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Title: Mental development and education
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Subjects: Child development Education
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan compay
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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are not only constantly in evidence in our every-day life, but they are as organic a part of our inter-communica-tion as is speech. One has but to watch the participants in thenext few conversations he observes, or the next dramatic per-formance he attends, to be impressed with the truth of this state-ment. We are continually emphasizing, locating, describing,or displaying a mental or emotional state by means of gesture.Mosher, The Essentials of Effective Gesture, p. 2. 10. Do the most effective public speakers freely employfeatural, postural and gestural expression? Describe instancesof figurative expression actually employed by a public speaker,and say whether the expression was an aid or a hindrance inconveying his thought to his audience. 11. Give instances of figurative, gestural and postural expres-sion generally employed by boys in the teens. Do girls use thesame expression? Is this expression of service alike to the per-former and to the observers ? EXPRESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 321
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i^2 MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION 12. Docs Mantcgazza go beyond the facts in referring to theuniversality of physical expression in the following quotation?What precisely is the difference between conventional and physical expression, asMantegazza uses theseterms ? Like language,physical expressionpresents many varie-ties of form; but itis always a more uni-versal language.Words, whatever maybe their origin, havealways a conventionalmeaning; thus theyare only of value toone who comprehendsthem and follows theirmeaning. Spontane-ous physical expres-sion, on the otherhand, is the languageof all intelligent men.and extends its influ-ence beyond the do-main of humanity; itis comprehensible tothose animals who most approximate to us by the develop-ment of their nerve renters. Say to a dog. to a child whodoes not yet know how to speak, or to a foreigner who doesnot know our language, the word brigand, at tho same timesmiling benevolently or making atTectionate gestures; these

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