Question

"They direct that the governing powers of all countries should establish rational plans for the education and general formation of the characters of their subjects. These plans must be devised to train children from their earliest infancy in good habits of every description which will of course prevent them from acquiring those of falsehood and deception."
Which policy would most likely be supported by this quotation from Robert Owen's A New View of Society?

• religious education
• private education for children
• free public education
• civics education for adults

Answer 1

Free public education.

Owen is calling on governments to create rational, state-organized plans to train children from infancy in good habits—a call for public (not private or strictly religious) schooling and social formation.