SEX IN EDUCATION

Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 3

SEX IN EDUCATION

GIRLS WHO WORK BETTER FOR MEN Several principals of continuation schools and colleges for adults agreed with the statement made by Miss Norrinfton, bead of the Bath Street Women’s Institute, in 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 ’). Mr J. J, Mallon, warden of Tonybcc Hall, said: “I agree with Miss Herrington. Both men and women take the classes held here, and both men and women attend them. I think the sex clement does play an important part ,in leaching. Men are less coarse if a woman is in charge of a class of them, and in he same way women are less silly when taught by a man. The mere fact that a man is in charge makes « class of girls work harder—he seems to have a bracing effect on them. Girls like to show themselves on their best behaviour before a man teacher. Dr R. W. Holland, of Pitman’s College, Southampton row, said ho found that the influence of the opposite sex in classes of young raeu and women was generally a good one. He added, however, that he thought the girl of to-day was very levelheaded, and that consequently she did not trouble whether the person who taught her was a mam or woman. Her one aim was to get on. The director of the London Polytechnic said that they employed men and women teachers indiscriminately, so long as they knew their job.