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Daniel Hannan

  • Director, Institute of Economic Affairs
  • Writer and Journalist, Freelance
England
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Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Whig peer.
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Lucy Powell is right – public speaking is more important than algebra and foreign languages

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Lucy Powell is right – public speaking is more important than algebra and foreign languages

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By Daniel Hannan
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How many times, since leaving school, have you used a cosine in anger? How often have you needed to know what an oxbow lake is? When did you last write out the periodic table, or conjugate a Latin verb? How many times, since leaving school, have you used a cosine in anger? How often have you needed to know what an oxbow lake is? When did you last write out the periodic table, or conjugate a Latin verb? I’ll bet, though, that at some point you have had to make a speech.
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Lucy Powell is right – public speaking is more important than algebra and foreign languages

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By Daniel Hannan
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How many times, since leaving school, have you used a cosine in anger? How often have you needed to know what an oxbow lake is? When did you last write out the periodic table, or conjugate a Latin verb? I'll bet, though, that at some point you have had to make a speech. Indeed, several speeches: presentations at work, suitable words at birthdays, pep talks to a team. How odd, then, that you were almost certainly not taught public speaking, at least not in the way that you were taught maths or Latin.
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