EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
f SEPARATE TEACHING OF GIRLS.Considerable interest is attached to the meeting of the Wellington Educational Institute, to be held today. The Council of Education has adopted a report submitted by the women members of that body on the education of girls. In effect that report affirms that the separate teaching of girls is desirable from the age of 10 years upwards. At the Dominion Conference of the Women Associations recently held in Wcllfngton, this report was strongly supported, and it was decided to recommend the Education Departnient to put its principles into immediate practice. As against this opinion it is strongly held by, many thoughtful teachers that in the primary schools at least the separate teaching of girls is highly undesirable, and Mr. William Foster has given notice to move at nest Friday's meeting that the principle of' segregating the sexes in primary schools is fundament-, ally unsound, being based on fallacies regarding the intellectual, moral and national training of children, and that accordingly, if such a principle is enforced in practice, it will be an educational and therefore a national calamity. 'This is the most important question that has come before the Educational Institute for some time, and the de bate on it is arousing considerable interest in educational circles.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3017, 2 March 1917, Page 6
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