Robert Owen And Horace Mann's Impact On The US

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Robert Owen and Horace Mann are both two major reformers and are both famous for their impact on the U.S. They both have changed the way people were living at the time and even impacted what we are doing today. I will be comparing and discussing the influence and impact they had on the life of the people, technology, and our country. Robert owen was one of the most influential early advocates of utopian socialism. Owen created lanark mills in scotland with social and industrial welfare programs and became a place of pilgrimage, statesmen, and social reformers. Owen sponsored many experimental utopian communities, including on in Indiana. Reading was one of his favorite things to do in his childhood and even in his later life, reading lead …show more content…

In this infant school he emphasized character development and even included dancing and music in the curriculum. In 1813 he published two of four essays in “A New View Of Society.” The main point he was bringing across in his essays was that “man's character was formed by circumstances over which he had no control, therefore man was not a proper subject of either praise of blame.” In other words, he's saying that a man's character has proper influence from his early years. Robert owen bought 30,000 acres of land in Indiana and named it New Harmony. This community was followed on his guideline. After 1834 owen devoted himself to preaching his ideas on education, morality, rationalism, and marriage reform. At the age of eighty two he became a spiritualist. Overall Robert Owen was significant and made an impact on his time and …show more content…

Although Horace Mann had a big impact in the education, Robert Owen did as well. Owen created infant schools that would develop children in their early years which followed Owens principal that a man's character was based on the early years. Owen didn't just have an impact on the education world but he was also involved in business. He managed large cotton mills and opened a store in New Lanark to better the life of the people. Not only did he do that but he also made way for two out of his four essays to be in the “A New View Of Society.” Robert Owen did numerous amount of things to give the people a better life and put his ideas out. Therefore Robert Owen won my