Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-17
Education in Newspapers.

We clip the following from the Le-
inster fIrelandy Independent:
The majority of persons who SUBJ
scribe to newspaper regard it in too
narrow point of view. They regard
it as a gossiping visitor, which affords
amusement or instruction to them
selves, That it is, of course. But it
may fulfill an important office i'm e
household. 1t may become power
ful auxiliary in the intellectual inn
provement of the young. The one,
who reads aloud a good newspapers for
the elder members of the family czui-
not fail to be advanced and elevated
by his occupation. Such an exercise
will gradually wean him from the puer-
ilities, follies and toys of childhood.
1t will fill his mind with varied, Curl
Gus, useful and solid knowledge. FB
will educate him unConsciously. It
will, to use a vulgar phrase, make a
man of him. This might be demon.
stratcd by the example of America. -
One of the reasons why young
Americans are so Intelligent, So enter
prising, so ''wide- awake" is that in
their boyhood their mental aliment
consisted in great love ofnewspapers.
School boys in America not only
read, they sometimes write for news
papers. In consequence of this, the
young, keen eyed American is not on
ly abrest of contemporary eventsy but
he projects his mind into the future
He makes 1.-THE time to come" his ownL
All that wonderful variety of curious
invention which characterizes America
may be attributed in some degree to-
the precosity produced by newspaper
reading. It has often been remarked
that if England rules the sea, if
France or Prussia rules the land, the
future is the dominion of America.
The newspaper leads the youngm men,
as it we're, to the bright horizon OF
human kno wledge, where, like the
Arcadians pursuing the sun, they stand;
aloft and contemplate the golded efful-
gence, when, lost to other eyes, it illul
inmates the enchanted regions of the;
untrodden future. They do not think
of what their country has been, but
what it will be. They anticipate the
time when America will be as popu-
lous as China, as military as Prussia
maratime as England, as powerful as
Rome in the plentitude of its imperial
denomination. They not only do this,
but they endeavor to make, their OWL
country what they imagine.
The youth of America are, generally
speaking able to discuss the impor-
tant questions which agitate the minds
of the great statesmen. In reading
the eulogY of eminent men, which SO
often occur in the newspapers q spark
is sometimes struck, fame kindled, a
love of fame engendered, which ami
mates them through life to struggle
for prominent positions. in society
There is no description of literature
which excites so much attention in
the old, land consequently makes so
great an impression on the young) as
a good newspaper. The piniens of
the intellect set strong in the perusal,
and become capable Of wide range OF
pro ftable excursion i'll the world of in
quiry. To read a modern newspaper
requires a great amount of informa'
ton. Without a knowledge of geog
raphy, for instance, a newspaper is un-
Ineligible. No boy who understands
a newspaper can grow dolt, NOPE,
a child-man. He must be capable OF
conversation on the greatest subjects
of popular discussion. In short, the
father who refuses, or fails, for the
sake of paltry expenditure, to intro
duce a newspaper into his household
deprives the children of an intellectu-
al Inheritance He inf1icts an irrepar-
able injury upon his offspring.