Document Type : Reasearch paper
Abstract
The research included five axes. The first axis discussed his birth and upbringing. He was born into a middle-income family that lived in a village within Montgomeryshire County in Wales. He did not complete his education due to special circumstances that were explained in the research, but he was an encyclopedic intellectual. The second axis followed the formation of his business personality and how he developed himself from a worker. Simple, he worked under the management of many merchants mentioned in the research until he was able to become a merchant with a large number of workers under his management. The third axis focused on his cultural orientations and his educational project. He mixed with scholars and philosophers. He joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and he had the idea of establishing a private school. For poor children according to a special curriculum that was explained in detail in the research, the fourth axis shed light on society and education from Robert Owen’s point of view, and the fifth axis dealt with discussing Robert Owen’s project for a cooperative society or the establishment of cooperative villages and overcoming the difficulties for the peasant and working classes in order to reach an ideal society. Be a model for other societies