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SEX IN EDUCATION.
trial of his theories, will regard the experiment with equanimity if not with complacency.
If, then, the identical co-education of the sexes is condemned both by physiology and experience, may it not be that their special and appropriate co-education would yield a better result than their special and appropriate separate education ? This is a most important question, and one difficult to resolve. The discussion of it must be referred to those who are engaged in the practical work of instruction, and the decision will rest with experience. Physiology advocates, as we have seen, the special and appropriate education of the sexes, and has only a single word to utter with regard to simple co-education, or juxtaposition in education.
That word is with regard to the common belief in the danger of improprieties and scandal as a part of co-education. There is some danger in this respect; hut not a serious or unavoidable one. Doubtless there would be occasional lapses in a double-sexed college ;