Neville's elocution teacher predicts he cannot earn a living with his voice

At school in New York City, in an elocution class of forty, his teacher brought him forward and made him an example of what not to do, telling the others he would never earn a living using his voice — yet he is the only one of the forty whose profession is his voice.
Date (happened)
between 1910 and 1922
unresolved
  1. between 1910 and 1922 stated · probable · preferred
    Source Manner Jesus Birth Sign ¶31"when I went to school", told in Manner Jesus Birth Sign (nid 1860)
Place
New York City
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 13 May 1968 estimated · probable
    Source Manner Jesus Birth Signdelivery claim d1 on lecture nid=1860: 1968-05-13 exact/probable, state=confirmed, recovered from the chrome dateline '5/13/68', narrowing d0's broad 1965-1969 between-range (day-after-Mother's-Day internal evidence) to a single confirmed day.
    Reasoning Passage 547182 is Neville telling, in his own voice, of his elocution teacher singling him out as an example of what not to do -- this is the telling. The owning lecture nid=1860 is dated 1968-05-13 by its most precise, confirmed delivery claim, so the telling inherits that date at the same exact/probable precision.
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Source

  • Manner Jesus Birth Sign ¶31 (I know when I went to school, in a class of forty my elocution teacher singled me out to tell the others that I would never earn a living using my voice. She used me as an example to show what was wrong, and I’m the only one of the class of forty who onl…)