My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahea… - Robert Owen

The Institution has been devised to afford the means of receiving your children at an early age, almost as soon as they can walk. By this means many of you, mothers and families, will be able to earn a better maintenance or support for your children; you will have less care and anxiety about them, while the children will be prevented from acquiring any bad habits. and gradually prepared to learn the best.

The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:<p>1st — When they are neglected in infancy<p>2nd — When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.<p>3rd — When they are paid low wages for their labour

The will of man has no power whatever over his opinions; he must, and ever did, and ever will, believe what has been, is, or may be impressed on his mind by his predecessors, and the circumstances which surround him.