EDUCATION OF GIRLS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2935, 22 November 1916, Page 3

EDUCATION OF GIRLS

7 —: — *~ FUTILITY'OF EARLY DIFFERENTIATION. The recommendations of ttte Council of Education regarding the education of girls were discussed at a meeting of the Wellington' Women Teachers' Association. Miss P. Myers, who presided, discussed the" proposals critically and at length, and' after general discussion the following resolution submitted by Miss Coad'wps carried by the meeting: "That the' Wellington Women Teachers' Association considers that the report of the Council of; Education on the'-education of; girls'is -based, on unsouiid principles in.'regard ; to: (1) Early differentiation in' regard to the.educatio'nof girls; (2) almost complete segregation of' boys and girls right through their school course." In moving the motion, Miss Coad made three points: (1) That experts were agreed that any specialisation in the primary schools was not advisable, and that at the early age of ten it would be certainly ineffective. (2V That classification should bo accorded to ability and capacity, and not according to sex. Latest investigations have shown that in matters of intellect the difference between the.nvorage bov and the average girl is negligible, and that where differences do arise they, are duo to differences in training and traditional differences in treatment of wompn. (3) further, the economic problem arises. The girl has to bo educated to earn a living,'and in'all cases' should be able to do this when the emergency arose.