“Why should anyone care about what I have learned from this research? What makes my findings at all interesting or relevant to this class or to my life as a UR student?”

Because my topic is about education in new Lanark and new harmony.  Before I did my research  of 19 century British education situation for the background information of my  final paper. before the research, i just thought that Owen’s experiment was kind of weird because he tried to teach kids character education which I felt It is kind of like brain washing in 1984. However, after the research, I just realized that It was a really profound way. Under that circumstance, It is totally different comparing our society which parents had higher education and can teach children the right and wrong. In 19 century,  poor were under really bad situation, they did not have the enough resource and their kids had to work for supporting their family.  So with the contrasting of British society, Owen’s Innovation in education is much more advance comparing others and it is the foundation of his ideal society and utopia thinking.

From this research, I learnt that I can not just judge others’ theory without looking the historical background. Though some may sound weird from our point of view but from that time period it would be much more advance.