The Mt. Oread Manifesto on Rhetorical Education 2013

Citation
Keith, William and Roxanne Mountford. "The Mt. Oread Manifesto on Rhetorical Education 2013." Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1-5.

Summary
Written at the 2013 RSA Summer Institute.

Calls for a new and integrated approach to rhetorical education that would "draw promiscuously from the work of rhetoricians in English=Writing Studies, Communication and Classics" (4). Also centers on rhetoric as a teaching tradition. Primarily focused on higher education institutions where introductory/general education writing and speech courses can be combined into an integrated curriculum, for the cultivation of average citizens' facility in rhetorical analysis.

The authors take as exigence for this project "technology and the expansion of modes and modalities of public communication," which makes the civic dimension of rhetoric paramount (2). A previous noted attempt at integrated rhetorical education occurred "just before and after World War II, when high schools and colleges adopted an integrated curriculum designed to encourage civic action and train officers" (1). This attempt lasted from the 1940s-1960s. (Note the national public exigence - tied to a specific event, whereas the contemporary call seems to be changes in the way we live)