Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-02
sennrnllnE rhe setes In sehool,

On this point, Mr. Stowe, celebrated Glas-
gov teacher, uses the following language.
The youth of both sexes of our Scottish peas
antry havo been educated together and,
as a whole, the Scotch are the most moral pco-
pe ON the earth. Education in England is
given separately and we never have heard from
practical men that any benefit has arisen from
this arrangement. Some influential individuals
there mourn over the prejudice on this point
In Dublin larger number of girls turned out
badly who had been educated alone until they
attained the age Cf maturity than those who
were otherwise brought up-thei separation of
the sexes has been found to be injurious. II is
stated, on the best authority, that of those girls
educated ia schools or converts apart from
boys, the greater majority go wrong within a
month after being let loose in society, and
meeting the other sex. They cannot, it is
said, resist the slightest compliment or flattery
The separation is intended to keep them strictly
moral; but this unnatural seclusion actually
generates the very principle desired to be avoid
ed. We may repeat that it is impossible ia
raise the girls az high, intellectually, without
boys as with them, and it is impossible TO raise
boys morally as high without girls. The girls
morally elevate the boys, and the boys intellec
tually elevate the girls. But more than this;
girls themselves are morally elevated by the
presence OF boys, and boys are intellectually el
evated by the presence of girls Girls brought
up with bows are more positively moral and
boys brought up in schools with the girls are
more positively intellectual by the softening
influence Of tn. female character. In the Nor
NAL Seminary at GLASGOW ths most beneficial
effects have resulted from the more natura
course Boys and girls-ircm the age of two
or three wears to that of fourteen or fifteen
have been trained in the same class room, gale
ries and play grounds, without improperly, ant
they are never separated, except at needle work
There is human nature as well as good sens
in the remarks of the Glasgow teacher, and W,
should like to hear the reasons our Schoo
Board and Superintendent have to offer for ed.
ucating the sexes separately in the Primary AM
intermediate departments of our City Publ
Schools, and together in the Grammar AM
High Schools. Do they thus separate the sexe
iu their own flmiliesl If the sexes should nc
mingle, play, study recito and grow up to
gether in the innocency of early childhood
when, pray, should the division bars be le
downl There is no question bot very many 6
tho "bad boys in school" are made such b
herding from fifty to seventy little lads togethe
in school rooms and play grounds, and total
excluding them during school hours fiom tn
softening and restraining influence of sister
and their prattling companions. Boys as nat
urally become rough, hoorish, mischievous an
ungovernable when deprived of the society
the weaker and the better sex, as do men,
Separating the sexes in schools is Immature
and a violation of the social and family arrange
ment and ties which should never be practice
in well regulated communities. The eompeI
stions Of such divisiOnI in the aggregate al
decidedly adverse to the symmetrical formt
ton of youthful character in both sexes,