167 years ago today, on November 17, 1858 (October 12, 1858 lunar calendar), the British utopian socialist Robert Owen died. Robert Owen (May 14, 1771 - November 17, 1858), a British utopian socialist, was also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. Owen was born in poverty, worked as an apprentice, store manager, and later became a factory owner. He took the initiative to shorten the working hours of workers in his own factory, improve welfare conditions, and raise wages. In 1824, Owen bought 1,214 hectares of land in Indiana, USA, and began an experiment in the New Harmony Immigration Area, but the experiment ended in failure. For the first time in history, Owen revealed the reasons for the poverty of the proletariat and proposed the close relationship between public ownership and large-scale production from the perspective of productivity. In his later years, he also put forward communist propositions. The most famous works are "New Social Concept" and "New Moral World Book". In 1823, he established a "New Harmony Village" in Indiana, USA, with all his property, to conduct experiments on the communist "labor commune". The combination of education and productive labor is a major contribution of Owen to the treasure house of human education theory. He believes that in order to cultivate a new generation with all-round development of intellectual education, moral education, and sports, education must be combined with productive labor. In order to popularize education, Owen advocates the establishment of an education system and the implementation of education legislation. Owen believes that "educating the next generation is the most important issue", "is the highest interest of every country", and is "an overwhelming and urgent task" of "governments around the world". In order to ensure that every child, especially those of working people, receives the best education from birth, Owen advocated that a national education system should be arranged for the working class immediately "," passing a bill for the education of the poor and working classes of the United Kingdom ". Owen also listed in detail the specific provisions of the education bill, such as the leadership of the education department, the training of teachers, the expenditure of funds; the determination of teaching content, teaching plan, teaching method; family education and social education, etc., and argued and expounded the reasons for the legislation. Comments:" Father of Modern Personnel Management ", one of the three Utopian Socialists