SEX IN EDUCATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 10

SEX IN EDUCATION.

GIRLS WHO WORK BETTER FOR MENV Several principals of continuation echooia and colleges, for adults' agreed ■with the statement made by Miss Normgtpn, head of the Bath Street Women’s Institute, m a speech at the Adult Education Conference at Cambridge recently, that a young man teacher may have a good disciplinary effect on girl students, (reports the London Daily Telegraph). tt n rT ’. , J -,A la ' lon ’ w arden of Tonvbee ■Mali, said I agree with Miss-Korring-ton. Both men and women take the classes held here, and both men and women attend them. I think the sex element does play an important part in teaching. Men are less coarse if a woman is in charge of a class of them, a „n the lame way women ace less r ? taught by a man. The mere fact that a man is in charge makes a class of girls work harder—he seems to have a bracing effect on them. Girls ako to show themselves on their best behaviour before a man teacher.” Dr R; W. Holland, of Pitman’s College, Southampton row, said he found that the influence bf the opposite sex in classes of young men and women was generally a good one. He added, however, that he thought that tho girl oE to-day was very level-headed, and that consequently she did not trouble whether the person who taught her was a man or woman. Her one aim was to got on. The director of the London Polytechnic said that they employed men and women teacher* indiscriminately, so long as they -new their job.