Linguistic Windex

The study of rhetoric, I have learned, is not the study of the art of speaking. One would think that oration would be the main emphasis in the education of an orator, but it is not. Words, I have come to realize are mere noises, vibrations caused by vibrating tissue, apart from the meanings behind them. In order to speak, one must think. In order to speak well, one must think well. Rhetoric is the art of thinking. Public speaking is as much about critical listening as it is about making speeches. The ability to process information and organize it into a logical flow is at the heart of oration. This is Logos.

That is, though, only part of the education of an orator....