The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-04-04
The Ava1zt Courier
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Education i'm Newspapers

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The majority Of persons who subscribe To
newspaper regard il in too narrow Il poin,
of view. They regard t lis a gOsSiplsinc
q visitor whoAsfUrds anleiseneHi8Gr instruction
< ~ themselves Thus A. ofacemse. n Bit il
may fttlffll asTndrc inipartant aiiicesn house
hold. 1t may become a powerful Hillary in
ric intellectual Improvement Of the Young
~ The boy who reads aloud a good newspaper
for the elder members OF the family cam OF
fail to be advanced and elevated by lis occtl-
s,atnn, Such All exercise will gradually
wcan him from puerisies, 70. lies and TOYS ef
childhood. 1t will ill his m ind with varied,
"a curious. useful, and solid ksiowIcdge. 1t viii
ny xtlAcate him unconscious ". 1t viii. Ia use
yugarGphrase, make a Imam OF him. This
might be demonstrated by the example Of
America. One Of lie reasons why young
Americans are SO intelligent. so enterprising
SO ..wide awake is, that in their boyhood
their mental raliment consisted iii great de-
greesaf newspapers. %Sciloofboys iii X Inerica
not only read, they spaefiacs write newspa-
Icrs. IN consequence OF this, the young
kccn-eyed American is not only abreast Of
contemporary events. but he projects his
mind into the future. He@tnakes ..fhe time
to come his owns All Tint wonderful yari-
city 0f curious invention which cfaracterizes
Ani'crica uaay be attributed la some degree to-
the precocity productivity newspaper reading.
, IT las very often been remarked that il Eng-
lard rule the sea, it France or Prussia rule
The lapd. tho, futnie is thesloninion OF A,neii-
9ca The newspaper leads their Young men.
as it were, to the bright horizon Of human.
knowledge, wlerc, like the Areadians pur-
suing the san, they stand aloft and contem-
plate tie gohlen effuigpncc, when. lost to
other eyes, it illuniuates the enchanted re-
gions OF the antrodsier future. They do not
think Of what their country has BEEN hut
what II win be. They anticipate the time
a when America viii be as populoiisas China,
ms military as Prussia, ms maritime as Eng
Elnd. as powerful as pagan Rome i'm the
plenitude OF its imperial domination They
siet only do this, they endeavor to make their
own country what they imagine. The youth
are. generally speaking, able to discuss the
Important questions which agitate the minds
H the greatest statesman. Iii reading the
eNisgieS of eminent u en-, which so often oc-
eur in newspapers. a spark is sometimes
struck, Il flame kindled, love Of fame en-
gcndered which animates Them hrotigh'Iife
to struggle for q. prominent position in So
cicty. There isslio description Of literature
which eXcites more attention in the old land
consequently makes SO great an'improssioi, or
the youngl as 2 good newspaper. The pin
ions OF the intellect wax strong in the pertIsal,
and become capa6le of awide raige Of profit
able excursion in TIE world Of inquiry. TO
read a modern newspaper requires a great
amount of iDfarmat ION N Without "a knowl-
u edge Of geography for instance. Il newspaper
is llninteliigible. No one who understands a
newspaper can grow up a. dolt, a NOPE. 6
child man. he must lie capable OF converse
q ton on the greatest subjects of popular dis
crlssioh. In short. the father who refuses or
ialls. Tor the sake OF a paltry expenditure. to
1ntroduce newspaper into his household de- |
priyes his children of great intellectual in
heritance. He inficts ain irreparable injury
on his offspring (Iretond) hide
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