COEDUCATION

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20104, 6 December 1930, Page 5

COEDUCATION

JjpcaU ing at v^t. Au.-.l'-'U Cuunt> •School. prize-giving recently >Sif Benjamin ?■». Gotfc, formerly secretary to tho Middlesex Education Committee, said as a lifelong believer in coeducation it was extremely interesting to jind that iheir school was such a happy one, so well managed and well taught, and it came as a shock to him to learn that they proposed to discontinue co-education and go in ioi two separate buildings. Co-eduea Lion was a new thing in the South of England, but tho number of co-educational schools had grown rapidly in the country —in fact, about one-quarter of the grant-aided schools were now coeducational. Educating boys and gii'ls together did not produce a slurring ot tho type, but brought contrast and comparison into proper relief. Both on the educational and on the social side co-educational schools had been most successful. With men and women working together more and more as they were to-day. it was far better in most cases that they should bo educated together. Secondary schools were in his opinion going to become more numerous and more important with the raising of the school age. lie wanted to see this, but only if there was a carefully thought out system, with suitable grouping of tho pupils, and a duo regard to economy and n determination to obtain full value for money expended. Tie wanted to see their boys and girls trained for a successful life, and be wanted to be assured, too, that their boys and girls should have in all their schools a moral and religious training.