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How did instruction and recreation share time at the New Lanark infant classes?
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At the Institute for the Formation of Character in New Lanark, founded by Robert Owen in 1816, the infant classes for children aged two to five years were structured to balance academic and physical development. Specifically, these children spent half of their time engaged in formal instruction and the other half in recreation.1