Robert Owen was a successful manufacturer, labor leader, social reformer and a profound experiential educator. He was a pioneer of developing his Utopia society.

 

Owen’s Point of View of ideal society:

Owen wanted to design a new world of perfect humankind where it attains all universal goodness, wisdom, and happiness and withdraws all unkindness for human through the social reformation.

 

Function: reforms in education and society.

 

 

Project one: New Lanark and New Harmony

New Harmony:

 

Differences:  Urban VS Rural

Industry Vs agriculture

One leader VS Team Work.

 

 

 

Education is one of the most important part in his project. Owen want to change the British society situation.

Purpose: creating new generation

 

 

British education situation.

 

Upper class: private school

 

 

 

Lower class: labor or Church school

 

 

Deadly cycle; poor always poor

 

 

 

 

Owen’s education philosophy: character education as early as possible. isolated the Children with parents

 

 

 

 

Infant school

 

 

 

Character education and higher education

NH: More on science and industrial

 

 

Theory developed later in New Moral World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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