Utopia problems and thinking in my research

How does my research address the problem(s) of utopia? What connections could I make with More’s Utopia in my seminar paper?

My seminar paper is focusing on the new education method Owen developed for his ideal society. In his entire life, he was focusing on building his ideal society and education was really important part of his planning.  For education, he decided to change the old British education style for fitting his new Utopian idea and developed his educational theory inside of New harmony and New Lanark.

From my research, It is totally difference between the new Harmony and New Lanark comparing the British public education. The Children got better chance of education and better care inside of the new Harmony and New Lanark. They followed Owen’s character education and influenced by his education idea that surrounding in better environment like school, children especially in lower classes would develop better positive characters for the society  than their parent’s negative effect.  Meanwhile in British, children in the lower class were under terrible situation.  From the book of Owen as educator, It said that they could only hope to become apprentices or servants; It was assumed that education would be time and economic wasting if poor were destined for a lifetime long labors in factories for example, which needed no education for such a career.

So I think the education innovation Owen did in the New harmony and New lanark would be a good reflection on his Utopian thinking–which means focusing more on the development of next generation