John Dewey

one: role of the lecturer

two: role of the audience

three: content & performance of lecture

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

over 1500 public lectures

breadth of topics

what Emerson's lectures reveal is that public lectures can successfully engage an audience by remaining abstract & removed from everyday life of the audience.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

travel lectures

what Twain's lectures reveal is that lecture audiences like being taken on imaginative tours of new places, people and ideas; these tours remove them temporarily from their own problems.