Robert Owen (May 14, 1771 - November 17, 1858) on School and Memorization(published by RevoltSource) |
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Welsh Textile Manufacturer, Philanthropist and Social Reformer, and a Founder of Utopian Socialism and the Cooperative Movement
: A Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He strove to improve factory working conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, and sought a more collective approach to child rearing, including government control of education. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #11 on Education Struggle Quotes >> School and Memorization
“That the reasoning faculty may be injured and destroyed during its growth, by reiterated impressions being made upon it of notions not derived from realities, and which it therefore cannot compare with the ideas previously received from the objects around it. And when the mind receives these notions which it cannot comprehend, along with those ideas which it is conscious are true and which yet are inconsistent with such notions, then the reasoning faculties become injured, the individual is taught or forced to believe, and not to think or reason, and partial insanity or defective powers of judging ensue.
That all men are thus erroneously trained at present, and hence the inconsistencies and misery of the world.”
Source: "A New View of Society," by Robert Owen, Essay 2, 1816. Essay 3, 1816.
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