The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-15
Co-education of the Sexes
Editor Home Journal!

Editor Home journal;
Under the above heading there ap
peared an article in your paper several
weeks since, taken from the "Cumbel
land Presbyterian" iavorng the
schooling Of the sexes together, AS
this subject has created considerable
talk in our town and county Of late,
and as only one side Of the question
has been laid before your readers,
beg that you give the following opin
ions from leading educators q place In
your columns:
w. y. Ward, President OF Wards
Seminary, Nashville, says: "Co'educa
ton of the sexes has been tried in
many places, but it is on the decline,
We do not believe IL best, Ages OF
parental experience are against 1t. E9'
pccially is 1t injurious to the girls,
They say it refncs the boys, That may
be. But what parent wishes his
daughter to Ne put to such n use as re-
lning boys, at the risk of the loss Of
her own delicate and feminine quail
ties. And in every school Of boys
there are coarse and vulgar ones, who
are generally the leaders IN all the as
socialions Of the sexes, Many Of the
most eminent and enlightened educa'
tors Of this day are Of this opinion"
President Noah Porter, Of Yale COL
Iege, says: "rhe reasons are obvious,
in my judgment, why boys and girls
from the age of fourteen to eighteen
should not recite in the same class
room, nor meet in the same study
hail, nor encounter one another in the
same passages ola large public school
| have no objection to learned women,
but | would have hem remain women
and, il they are to be- perfect women,
they must be trained as women, and
womanhood even in girlish years res
quires isolation aud reserve, if nothing
more
Hon. John D. philhrick, Superin~
tcndent of Public Schools Of Boston,
says: "Thc mental and physical differ.
ences Of girl, and boys require that
they should be educated separately be.
tween the ages Of twelve and eighteen,
if the best results arc to he obtained,
and that the experience Of Germany,
Scotland and other countries shows
the same"
President Bartlett, of Dartmouth
College, says: Il believe in giving our
daughters the best and highest cduca
ton, and therefore | believe firmly in
giving them u separate and special ed
ucalion. Co.e tucation may answer
during the period OF childhood and the
earlier stages of instruction it may
be continued to n later period 10 the
limited circumstances and watchIuI
guardianship of q country village; and
under exceptional conditions, may pro-
coed. perhaps, in the higher range OF
study. But so soon and so Tar rs the
distinctive traits Of manhood and wo.
manhood begin strongly to develop
and assert themselves, the physical, in
teIlecLual, and moral necessities Of the
case seem to me to demand n difference
Of method and separatenCss OF daily
study, recitation, and Intercourse. |
have known, when myself II scholar in
a mixed village school, communira
tions and relations between some ofthe
older pupils Of different sexes, which
would have amazed both parents and
teachers. And the times are more all
verse now than then. The policy OF
co. education, in my judgment, should
it ever extensively prevail, will sooner
or later be attended with developments
that will remand us s%ternly and sadly
back to the Christian wisdom and Wig
lance of the past"
DR.. Eliot, President OF Harvard Uni
versity, says: "Thcrc is not n boys
school on the face of the earth whose
atmosphere is suitable for the training
Of girls"
JUNIUs.