Owen, Robert Dale:

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AN OUTLINE OF THE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION AT NEW LANARK. First American edition, following the first Glasgow edition of 1824, of Robert Dale Owen's An Outline of the System of Education at New Lanark, describing the Owenite philosophy of education, which would serve as the basis for the educational program implemented at New Harmony, the short-lived utopian socialist community established by Owen's father in Indiana in 1825. As one scholar points out, "Few social reformers have accorded education such a central place in their philosophy as the Owenites. They spoke in lyrical terms of what could be achieved by it, and attributed vast power to its influence....Other contemporary bodies of reformers in Britain and America...had educational goals and used educational methods. But none was so continuously saturated with education as the Owenites" (Harrison). Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877) was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of industrialist and social reformer Robert Owen. He grew up in New Lanark, where his father managed the family's textile mills and established a factory community founded on a program of social, moral, and educational reform. Owen was educated at the New Lanark school and by private tutors until the age of eighteen, when he left to attend the progressive school overseen by Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg at Hofwyl, Switzerland, which "confirmed for him his father's conviction that education offered the potential for overcoming social divisions that were based on c

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