Owen was born in Newton, Montgomery County, North Wales on May 177 1, ranking sixth among seven children. His father is a harness master and a hardware dealer, and his mother is a female postman. Because two of the seven children died young, Owen was loved by his parents when he was a child. Owen liked reading when he was a child. In the small town where they live, the study rooms of learned people are basically open to him. When he was a child, Owen read through all the interesting books he could find. Owen was troubled when he was a child and almost died several times. Of course, these things that almost killed him also had a great influence on him. For example, when he was four or five years old, he once burned his stomach by drinking porridge, which led him to eat light food later, and he should carefully observe different foods. Day after day, Owen developed the habit of paying attention to details. When I was a child, Owen was very active, and he was among the best in all kinds of competitions, and he had a wide range of hobbies and liked to make friends. At the age of nine, Owen had read a lot of books and was full of expectations for the outside world. Poverty at home and the experience of "family child labor" from childhood made him enter the society prematurely. At the age of ten, Owen left home to make a living with his brother in London. A few weeks later, Owen was sent to a garment factory in Stamford as a tailor apprentice. Three years has taught him a lot. Later, he tried a variety of occupations and accumulated rich experience.

18 years old, Owen took the borrowed 100 and set up his own factory in Manchester. At the age of 20, in order to get better development, he sold his small factory to a man named Linde Kovat, who was employed by him and became the manager of a larger factory. In this factory, Owen's careful observation played a great role. He first spent six weeks carefully observing the various activities of the workers, and then implemented his own management measures. The practice of factory management made Owen aware of the influence of the environment on himself and others, and worked hard to improve the working environment of workers. Because of his excellent management, Linde Kovat gave him some shares, which made him a shareholder again. The accumulated experience here laid the foundation for Owen's experiments in new lanark factory in the future.

18 12, Owen published the Report on new lanark Factory to publicize his reform achievements, which aroused widespread concern in European society. Since then, Owen has done a lot of work to win the parliament's promulgation of the factory law and legislation restricting working days. 18 15, in his book on the influence of industrial system, he called for the enactment of parliamentary bills to improve workers' working conditions. After continuous efforts, the parliament finally passed the bill for the first time in 18 19 to limit the working days of factory women and children.

1824, Owen bought 12 14 hectares of land in Indiana, USA, and started the experiment of a new harmonious settlement, but the experiment ended in failure. Owen revealed the causes of proletarian poverty for the first time in history and put forward the close relationship between public ownership and mass production from the perspective of productivity. In his later years, he also put forward the idea of productism. The most famous works are New Social Outlook and New Moral World Book.

From 65438 to 0825, the combination of education and productive labor was Owen's great contribution to the treasure house of human education theory. He believes that education must be combined with productive labor in order to cultivate a new generation with all-round development of intellectual education, moral education and sports.