The role of Education in Development of Iran in the Qajar Era from the perspective of Persian Newspapers in Egypt

Press as one of the major sources of information and one of the most effective media outlets plays a decisive role in the political and social transformations of countries. In the contemporary history of our country, the press has a prominent position and the study of developments in the contemporary history of the country, will be incomplete if the role of the press are to be neglected. The status of schools and the education during Naser-al-Din Shah and Mozafar-al-Din Shah's period and its impact on the progress of the country and the prevention from retardedness is among the events in which the press played an active role in promoting its foundations and features. Iran's retardedness in the Qajar era and the rapid development of the West led many intellectuals of that period to seek to answer the question of what factors led to the retardedness of Iran and the development of the West. Some publications, such as Persian newspapers, "Hekmat", "Thuraya", "Parvaresh", "Chehrehnama" and "Kamal", which were published in Egypt and were secretly entered Iran due to the repression reigning in Iran, focused on the cultural components of development, and called Iranians for the establishment and expansion of schools, and played an important role in waking Iranians inside and outside the country. In this paper, the authors have analyzed the content of the newspapers for the purpose of answering to this question.