Étienne Cabet's Utopian Socialist Educational Thought and Its Modern Value

Cabet was a famous utopian socialist in 19th century in France, whose educational ideas were mainly reflected in the book "Journey to Igalia". On the basis of criticizing the unequal old education system, he conceived a new education system based on the communist system. He believes that the most thorough solution is to establish a communist society. Replace the unequal education system with an equal education system to eliminate the various drawbacks of the old education system. Cabet advocates for comprehensive development education for children, believing that the education for children should include physical education, intellectual education, moral education, productive education and civic education. Cabet attaches great importance to educational development plannings and the rules of law in education, and proposes five principles that education and teaching should follow. Cabet's educational ideas contain countless valuable genius predictions of truths, which still have positive reference value for modern education.