MIXED SCHOOLS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1890, 11 July 1888, Page 3

MIXED SCHOOLS.

"A. Woman and a Mother," wrltlnp from Wanganul t j the " Taranakl Herald " on mixed schools, says : — " fhe present [ system la bringing (if it has not already brought) a curse upon the country. The iadisoriminalG mixing together of boys nnd girta of all classes must ba bad. The State compels peop'e to send their children to school, and no doubt) the State has dono a certain amount of good, but it haa also done an Immoono de*l of harm by compelling respectable people to send tbelr innocont children to ba contaminated by children of the vary lowest and most vicious class, for there is no distinction mado between good and bid children, they are all herded together indiscriminately, good and bad, boys and tj'rls, and without any religions or moral (etching. It la known and silently grieved over by a great many people, that Immorality h Increasing amongst children, and It oan't be otherwise under the present system. In talking to a lady friend some time ago, she Bald : ' I oan't help notlolng that the little girls whom I used to know aa nice, quiet, modest children, are now become pert and forward and with no sense of modesty.' I ajtao have notloed the same thing. Now, If you take away modeßty acd delicacy of feeling from women and g'r's, what is to become of society ? It Is they who hold soolety together. If the present system of education goes on we shall sink down to the level of Ravages morally ; we may have a knowledge of all the ologies, bat if we are morally oorrnpt, what better (shall we be than savages ?