Question

Use the excerpt to answer the 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?
free public education.
free public education.

religious education.
religious education.

private education for children.
private education for children.

civics education for adults.
civics education for adults.

Answer 1

free public education.

Explanation: Owen calls on governing powers to create rational plans to train children from infancy in good habits — a clear call for state-organized (public) education rather than private or solely religious instruction or adult civics classes.