Let me say also that when I speak of coeducation I speak of what I know.
But inevitably some of the senior trustees fell in love with the first year girls and became convinced thatcoeducation was a noble cause.
For it is to nothing short of coeducation that the organized women of the United States are looking forward, coeducation on lines adapted to present-day wants.
When we ask for coeducation on vocational lines, the question is sure to come up: For how long is a girl likely to use her training in a wage-earning occupation?
No similar demand should be logically made of the working-girl today when she demands coeducation on industrial lines.
When coeducationwas first tried men thought they would easily carry off the honors; but soon they learned their mistake.
We havecoeducation in our schools; boys and girls work side by side and study and recite together.
The prejudice against coeducation in that profession was so strong that five women's medical schools were organized, but they provide instruction for little more than a quarter of the women medical students.
Here, of course, I make no attempt to offer a decisive opinion one way or the other upon the disputed question of coeducation of the sexes.
But coeducation has been opposed also for reasons of sexual education, on two grounds: that it leads to a premature awakening of the sexual life, and that it gives rise to immoral practices between the children.
We must always bear in mind the possibility that coeducation may lead to the more frequent occurrence of such practices between boys and girls.
Finck[134] gives reports regarding coeducation in the schools of the western states of the American Union, and informs us that there every girl has her beau of fourteen to seventeen years of age.
Having given this illustrative case, I must not omit to state that similar incidents may, of course, occur from time to time in connexion with the coeducation of children.
One condition has to be imposed, if coeducation is not to entail any dangers.
It is necessary that the child should regard coeducation as something perfectly natural.
In this connexion, the matter assumes a different aspect, according as coeducation is undertaken from the outset, or only after the children are already half-grown.
Their universal opinion was that no such undesirable results of coeducation were ever observed.
Because the alumni of the University of Rochester opposed coeducation and the city's wealthiest men were indifferent, progress was slow, but the trustees were persuaded to extend the time and to reduce by one half the amount to be raised.
She meant to put women in office and to win approval for coeducation and equal pay.
It was one thing to talk about coeducation but quite another to offer a resolution putting the New York State Teachers' Association on record as asking all schools, colleges, and universities to open their doors to women.
An exceptional opportunity was now offered Susan--to speak on the controversial subject of coeducation before the State Teachers' Association, which only a few years before had been shocked by the sound of a woman's voice.
The Negroes, themselves, however, did not object to the coeducation of the races.
Their coeducation extended not only to Sabbath schools but to other institutions of learning, which some Negroes attended during the week.
Coeducation is not only with us, but, if indications are correct, it has come to stay.
Yet coeducation wisely managed is almost indispensable to the training of noble men and women; for education in its broadest sense takes account of all the influences that go to form character.
Indeed, in this regard the sociological value of coeducation is very important.
The practical result of coeducation in the western states, where it has been given the freest opportunity, appears to demonstrate that such is actually the case.
The introduction of coeducation in the secondary schools is also due to the activity of this association, supported by Professor Wallis, who had investigated coeducation in the United States.
Most of the elementary schools are coeducational; in the secondary schools the sexes are segregated; in the higher institutions of learning coeducation prevails, the right of girls to attend being granted as a matter of course.
But a suspension of coeducation in the United States is not to be considered.
This experiment in coeducation during the plastic age of youth has not even been undertaken by France.
It is now beginning to be understood that the coeducation of the two sexes in schools, not only does no harm, but is very advantageous, both from the sexual and the moral points of view.
Our remarks do not apply to boarding-schools, but to coeducation in public schools.
In the secondary schools in Holland and Italy, as well as in some Swiss gymnasiums, coeducation has been introduced without the least inconvenience; on the contrary, it has led to the best results.
A native of Finland, Miss Maikki Friberg, has lately made an appeal in favor of coeducation based on the excellent results obtained in her country.
The reasons for the present reaction against coeducation are ascribed partly to the dislike of the idle boy to have girls excel him and see his failures, or because rowdyish tendencies are checked by the presence of women.
While girls may be trained with boys, coeducation should cease at the dawn of adolescence, at least for a season.
But even should all this be done, coeducation would by means be thus justified.
Finally, Jordan insists thatcoeducation leads to marriage, and he believes that its best basis is common interest and intellectual friendship.
The opinion of English writers generally favors coeducation up to about the beginning of the teens, and from there on views are more divided.
By the coeducation method, "young men are more earnest, better in manners and morals, and in all ways more civilized than under monastic conditions.
Various interesting experiments in coeducation are now being made in England.
It is not strange that with this and much more practical reasoning of a similar kind, coeducation was established in some colleges at their beginning, in others after debate and by a radical change in policy.
Coeducation involves, as its name implies, the education of a company of young men and women as a single body.
The early fear that coeducation would result in classroom romances has proved exaggerated.
Hitherto I have spoken as if coeducation were a western movement; and in the West it certainly has had greater currency than elsewhere.
Why, the defenders of coeducation ask, may not the same principles apply to women?
The preceding survey has shown how in coeducation a woman's study is carried on inside a man's college, in the women's college outside it, in the annex beside it.
And still in those sections where, with growing experience, the anxieties about coeducation have been allayed, a healthy and hearty relationship and honest rivalry between young men and women exists.
This will be better understood when thecoeducation of blind and seeing children becomes more general--God speed the day!
Coeducation in State schools and colleges is almost universal.
In the board schools it may serve well enough, but in the higher classes coeducation is impossible.
Coeducation not only makes English girls tomboys, overbearing and feverish in the pursuit of their masculine schoolmates, but it also has a very bad effect upon the boys.
In the course of time, however, this coeducation of the races became very distasteful to the State of Kentucky with its decided increase in race prejudice necessitating in their economy a thorough proscription of the Negro race.
The intention of the State legislature was to prevent all coeducation of Negroes and whites whether it should be done by persons or corporations.
If States can prohibit the coeducation of the whites and blacks it may prohibit the association of the Anglo-Saxons and Latins; of the Christians and the Jews.
The question whether or not coeducation leads to marriage seems to present few difficulties to Dr.
Where this training is taken is a secondary matter, though I believe with the fulness of certainty that better results, mental, moral, and physical, can be obtained in coeducation than in any monastic form of instruction.
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