Question

Use the following excerpt from Robert Owen to answer the question below:

"Train any population rationally, and they will be rational. Furnish honest and useful employments to those so trained, and such employments they will greatly prefer to dishonest or injurious occupations. It is beyond all calculation the interest of every government to provide that training and that employment; and to provide both is easily practicable."

Source: A New View of Society - Essays 1813-1816, Robert Owen

In what way might Adam Smith have disagreed with this statement?

a. Smith believed that education was only for the poor.
b.Smith believed that workers could not be trained to work.
c. Smith believed that the government's role was very limited.
d. Smith believed that the government should directly employ people.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The answer is:

c. Smith believed that the government's role was very limited.

Adam Smith, well known as the father of capitalism strongly believed that the Government should have limited role in the public affairs of free market, helping or training employees to capacitate them, this would be regulated by the free market and each individual should seek for its own training or capacitation.