Friday, 6 June 2014

NEWSPAPERS PLAY A PIVOTAL ROLE

For more than two centuries in this country, newspapers have been used
in classroom instruction. Although innovative teachers probably
enhanced instruction with newspapers since they were first printed,
the earliest known reference to newspapers as tools for learning
appeared in the Portland Eastern Herald of Maine on June 8, 1795.
Since then newspapers are part and parcel of the curriculum and serve
as an educational tool.

Much has been said and written on the utility of newspapers; but one
principal advantage which might be derived from these publications has
been neglected; we mean that of reading them in schools, and by the
children in families. Try it for one session. Do you wish your child
to improve in reading solely, give him a newspaper; it furnishes a
variety, some parts of which must indelibly touch his fancy. Do you
wish to instruct him in geography, nothing will so indelibly fix the
relative situation of different places, as the stories and events
published in the papers. In time, do you wish to have him acquainted
with the manners of the country or city, the mode of doing business,
public or private; or do you wish him to have a smattering of every
kind of science useful and amusing, give him a newspaper. Newspapers
are plenty and cheap, the cheapest book that can be bought, and the
more you buy the better for your children, because every part
furnishes valuable information.

During election time and newspapers play a pivotal role in bringing
the political parties to the fore and peak at the right time.
Photographs bursts in the first page with catchy captions and rebuttal
from the political leaders.  News papers play a pivotal role in
politics and more so in our regular life. It is indeed a time for news
in early morning hours.  Some people even skip their morning coffee
but never forget to read the newspaper. Even though e-paper is
available in the net for most of the newspapers people prefer to buy
newspaper and browse through at home and even take it to office for a
thorough study. newspapers are the backbone of the country and the
fulcrum round which the universe is functioning.

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