Co-ed con uncovered

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Co-ed con uncovered

 

The belief that mixed gender education is better than single-sex education is the most incorrect belief in human history since Galen’s belief that the pneuma zoticon (vital spirit) controlled the flow of blood and body temperature. This misunderstanding is so widely accepted however, because the general public not only in the UK, but around the world, has been conned, tricked, coerced into believing that mixed gender education is the best type of education. This is very wrong.

Dr. Jo-Ann Deak, an American educational psychologist, once said, “Girls’ brains are wired differently. It follows that adolescents need to be taught differently.” In single-sex schools boys as well as girls (in their separate schools) are taught in a way that enables them to learn as much as possible. It is also a well known fact that girls mature mentally earlier than boys. In a single-sex school, the teaching method can focus directly on one gender, and one particular age, hence one general frame of mind. In a co-ed school this is not possible, as there are two genders, two groups which are at different stages of mental development so the teaching method must be broader, which makes for inefficient education.

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Girls’ schools have been proven to counter the distinction between subjects previously regarded as “boys’ subjects” such as Maths and the Sciences, and “girls’ subjects” such as English and Foreign Languages. This dissolution of gender stereotyping gives girls a greater opportunity to take the subjects they wish to take, which in turn enables them to take the university courses they are best at.

It has also been proven that students behave much better in single-sex schools. In 2000, Benjamin Wright, the principal of the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle (USA) changed the class from co-ed to single-sex. He was ...

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