{"product_id":"robert-owen-on-education-9780521112253","title":"Robert Owen on Education","description":"Robert Owen was one of the most extraordinary Englishmen who ever lived and a great man. In a way his history is the history of the establishment of modern industrial Britain, reflected in the mind and activities of a very intelligent, capable and responsible industrialist, alive to the best social thought of his time. The organisation of industrial labour, factory legislation, education, trade unionism, co-operation, rationalism: he was passionately and ably engaged in all of them. His community at New Lanark was the nearest thing to an industrial heaven in the Britain of dark satanic mills; he tried to found a rational co-operative community in the USA. In everything he contemplated, he saw education as a key. This selection of his writings on education illustrates his rationalist concept of the formation of character and its implications for education and society; also his growing utopian concern with social reorganisation; and third, his impact on social movements. Silver's introduction shows Owen's relationship to particular educational traditions and activities and his long-term influence on attitudes to education.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603263226130,"sku":"9780521112253","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fd026319-9d93-4e91-9636-dd2a2f1ddc9a.jpg?v=1757432373","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/robert-owen-on-education-9780521112253","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}